CRIM PRO-DTH PENALTY-GUIDELINE House SponsorsRep. David E. Miller 1/11/2005HouseSession Sine Die 720 ILCS 5/113-8 new Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that the Attorney General and the Illinois State's Attorneys Association shall adopt recommendations as to the procedures that State's Attorneys should follow in deciding whether or not to seek the death penalty in a first degree murder case. The failure of a State's Attorney to follow the adopted procedures is not a ground to have the case decertified as a death penalty case or to have any death penalty sentence vacated. 2/28/2003HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. David E. Miller 2/28/2003HouseFirst Reading 2/28/2003HouseReferred to Rules Committee 3/5/2003HouseAssigned to Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee 3/13/2003HouseRule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee 1/11/2005HouseSession Sine Die