PEORIA An appellate court has ruled that a local judge erred two years ago when he dismissed a lawsuit against the Peoria Park District by a couple who say they were injured at Camp Wokanda.
The panel of judges from the 3rd District Appellate Court in Ottawa held last year, that now-retired Judge Michael McCuskey erred when he threw out a 2017 lawsuit filed by Michael Torres and Jaimie Gibson against the district. The ruling was recently officially published by the court.
McCuskey had sided with the park district, which filed a motion to dismiss the suit. Motions to dismiss are fairly common within civil proceedings and tend to focus on legal technicalities, not the substantive merits of a case.
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WA state Supreme Court prohibits mandatory life without parole for young adults
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 3/12/2021 Alexis Krell, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Mar. 11 The Washington State Supreme Court found mandatory sentences of life without parole unconstitutional for young adults and ordered two Pierce County men to be resentenced in a split ruling Thursday. Just as courts must exercise discretion before sentencing a 17-year-old to die in prison, so must they exercise the same discretion when sentencing an 18-, 19-, or 20-year-old, Justice Sheryl Gordon McCloud wrote in the lead opinion, signed by Justices Mary I. Yu, Raquel Montoya-Lewis and G. Helen Whitener. . We remand each case for a new sentencing hearing at which the trial court must consider whether each defendant was subject to the mitigating qualities of youth.