(705 ILCS 405/5-601)
Sec. 5-601. Trial.
(1) When a petition has been filed alleging that the minor is a
delinquent, a trial
must be held within 120 days of a written demand for such hearing made by any
party,
except that when the State, without success, has exercised due diligence to
obtain evidence material to the case and there are reasonable grounds to
believe that the evidence may be obtained at a later date, the court may, upon
motion by the State, continue the trial for not more than 30 additional days.
(2) If a minor respondent has multiple delinquency petitions pending
against the minor in the same county and simultaneously demands a trial upon
more than
one delinquency petition pending against the minor in the same county, the minor shall
receive a trial or have a finding, after waiver of trial, upon at least one
such petition before expiration relative to any of the pending
petitions of the period described by this Section. All remaining petitions
thus pending against the minor respondent shall be adjudicated within 160 days
from the date on which a finding relative to the first petition prosecuted
is rendered under Section 5-620 of this Article, or, if the trial upon the
first petition is terminated without a finding and there is no subsequent
trial, or adjudication after waiver of trial, on the first petition within a
reasonable time, the minor shall receive a trial upon all of the remaining
petitions within 160 days from the date on which the trial, or finding after
waiver of trial, on the first petition is concluded. If either such period of
160 days expires without the commencement of trial, or adjudication after
waiver of trial, of any of the remaining pending petitions, the petition or
petitions shall
be dismissed and barred for want of prosecution unless the delay is occasioned
by any of the reasons described in this Section.
(3) When no such trial is held within the time required by subsections (1)
and (2) of this Section, the court shall, upon motion by any party, dismiss the
petition with prejudice.
(4) Without affecting the applicability of the tolling and multiple
prosecution provisions of subsections (8) and (2) of this Section when a
petition has been filed alleging that the minor is a delinquent and the minor
is in detention or shelter care, the trial shall be held within 30 calendar
days after the date of the order directing detention or shelter care, or the
earliest possible date in compliance with the provisions of Section 5-525 as to
the custodial
parent, guardian or legal custodian, but no later than 45 calendar days from
the date of the order of the court directing detention or shelter care. When
the petition alleges the minor has committed an offense involving a controlled
substance as defined in the Illinois Controlled Substances Act or methamphetamine as defined in the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act, the court may,
upon motion of the State, continue the trial
for receipt of a confirmatory laboratory report for up to 45 days after the
date of the order directing detention or shelter care. When the petition
alleges the minor committed an offense that involves the death of, great bodily
harm to or sexual assault or aggravated criminal sexual abuse on a victim, the
court may, upon motion of the State, continue the trial for not more than 70
calendar days after the date of the order directing detention or shelter
care.
Any failure to comply with the time limits of this Section shall require the
immediate release of the minor from detention, and the time limits set forth in
subsections (1) and (2) shall apply.
(5) If the court determines that the State, without success, has exercised
due diligence to obtain the results of DNA testing that is material to the
case, and that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the results may be
obtained at a later date, the court may
continue the cause on application of the State for not more than 120 additional
days. The court may also extend the period of detention of the minor for not
more than 120 additional days.
(6) If the State's Attorney makes a written request that a proceeding
be designated an extended juvenile jurisdiction prosecution, and the minor is
in detention, the period the minor can be held in detention pursuant to
subsection (4),
shall be extended an additional 30 days after the court determines whether the
proceeding will be designated an extended juvenile jurisdiction prosecution or
the State's Attorney withdraws the request for extended juvenile jurisdiction
prosecution.
(7) When the State's Attorney files a motion for waiver of jurisdiction
pursuant to
Section 5-805, and the minor is in detention, the period the minor can be held
in
detention pursuant to subsection (4), shall be extended an additional 30 days
if the
court denies motion for waiver of jurisdiction or the State's Attorney
withdraws the motion for waiver of jurisdiction.
(8) The period in which a trial shall be held as prescribed by subsections
(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), or (7) of this Section is tolled by: (i) delay
occasioned
by the minor; (ii) a continuance allowed pursuant to Section 114-4 of the Code
of Criminal Procedure of 1963 after the court's determination of the minor's
incapacity for trial; (iii) an interlocutory appeal;
(iv) an examination of fitness ordered pursuant to Section 104-13 of the Code
of Criminal
Procedure of 1963; (v) a fitness hearing; or (vi) an adjudication of unfitness
for trial. Any such delay shall temporarily suspend, for the time of the
delay, the period within which a trial must be held as prescribed by
subsections (1), (2), (4), (5), and (6) of this Section. On the day of
expiration of the delays the period shall continue at the point at which
the time was suspended.
(9) Nothing in this Section prevents the minor or the minor's parents,
guardian
or legal custodian from exercising their respective rights to waive the time
limits set forth in this Section.
(Source: P.A. 103-22, eff. 8-8-23.)
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