The decision is before the Illinois Courts Commission, which on Wednesday concluded a rare hearing on whether 8th Judicial Circuit Judge Robert Adrian’s actions amounted to judicial misconduct.
Did a veteran judge in downstate Quincy who reversed his guilty ruling against a young man in a sexual assault case do so because he reconsidered the evidence and realized he was wrong? Or, did he do it to get around a state law that would have forced him to send 18-year-old Drew Clinton to prison for at least four years? Those two scenarios form the crux of the decision now before the seven-member Illinois Courts Commission, which on Wednesday concluded a rare hearing on whether 8th Judicial...
” Cameron Vaughan, 18, on Nov. 7, 2023, in Chicago. She was 16 when she accused an 18-year-old of sexual assault after a graduation party in Quincy. The judge who heard the case, Robert Adrian, initially found the young man guilty, but changed his verdict during the sentencing hearing.
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