People v. Tooley

2024 IL App (2d) 240395-U
CourtAppellate Court of Illinois
DecidedOctober 8, 2024
Docket2-24-0395
StatusUnpublished

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People v. Tooley, 2024 IL App (2d) 240395-U (Ill. Ct. App. 2024).

Opinion

2024 IL App (2d) 240395-U No. 2-24-0395 Order filed October 8, 2024

NOTICE: This order was filed under Supreme Court Rule 23(b) and is not precedent except in the limited circumstances allowed under Rule 23(e)(l). ______________________________________________________________________________

IN THE

APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS

SECOND DISTRICT ______________________________________________________________________________

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE ) Appeal from the Circuit Court OF ILLINOIS, ) of De Kalb County. ) Plaintiff-Appellee, ) ) v. ) No. 23-CF-158 ) FRANKLIN E. TOOLEY, ) Honorable ) Marcy L. Buick, Defendant-Appellant. ) Judge, Presiding. ______________________________________________________________________________

JUSTICE MULLEN delivered the judgment of the court. Justices Hutchinson and Birkett concurred in the judgment.

ORDER

¶1 Held: The trial court did not err in granting the State’s petition to deny defendant pretrial release and ordering him detained.

¶2 Defendant, Franklin E. Tooley, appeals from orders of the circuit court of De Kalb County

(1) granting the State’s verified petition to deny him pretrial release pursuant to article 110 of the

Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 (Code) (725 ILCS 5/art. 110 (West 2022)), commonly

referred to as the Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today (SAFE-T) Act or the Pretrial

Fairness Act, and (2) denying his subsequent motion for relief pursuant to Illinois Supreme Court 2024 IL App (2d) 240395-U

Rule 604(h)(2) (eff. April 15, 2024). See Pub. Acts 101-652, § 10-255 (eff. Jan. 1, 2023) and 102-

1104, § 70 (eff. Jan. 1, 2023) (we will refer to these public acts as the “Acts”). Defendant, through

counsel, declined to file a memorandum as permitted by Illinois Supreme Court Rule 604(h)(7)

(eff. April 15, 2024). He therefore stands on the arguments raised in his motion for relief, namely

that (1) the State failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that no condition or combination

of conditions could mitigate the real and present threat to the safety of any person or persons or

the community, based on the specific, articulable facts of the case and (2) the trial court failed to

include in its order a summary of its reasons for denying pretrial release as required by section

110-6.1(h)(1) of the Act (725 ILCS 5/110-6.1(h)(1) (West 2022)). We affirm.

¶3 I. STATEMENT OF FACTS

¶4 A. Background

¶5 On March 24, 2023, defendant was charged by criminal complaint in the circuit court of

De Kalb County with various felony sex crimes involving his 13-year-old sister, A.L. Defendant,

a 17-year-old minor at the time, was transferred to River Valley Juvenile Detention Center in Joliet.

On March 25, 2023, bond was set at $500,000 (10% to apply). Defendant was unable to post bond

and remained in detention.

¶6 On April 17, 2023, the criminal complaint was superseded by a 29-count indictment

charging defendant with: (1) 12 counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault of a person with a

physical disability (720 ILCS 5/11-1.30(a)(6) (West 2022)), a Class X felony; (2) 4 counts of

aggravated criminal sexual assault of a person with a severe or profound intellectual disability (720

ILCS 5/11-1.30(c) (West 2022)), a Class X felony; (3) 1 count of aggravated kidnapping of a

person with a severe or profound intellectual disability (720 ILCS 5/10-2(a)(2) (West 2022)), a

Class X felony; (4) 1 count of aggravated kidnapping and committing another felony upon the

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victim (720 ILCS 5/10-2(a)(3) (West 2022)), a Class X felony; (5) 3 counts of aggravated criminal

sexual abuse of a person with a physical disability (720 ILCS 5/11-1.60(a)(4) (West 2022)), a

Class 2 felony; (6) 1 count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a family member under 18 years

of age (720 ILCS 5/11-1.60(b) (West 2022)); (7) 1 count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a

person with a severe or profound intellectual disability (720 ILCS 5/11-1.60(e) (West 2022)), a

Class 2 felony; (8) 4 counts of sexual relations with a family member (720 ILCS 5/11-11(a) (West

2022)), a Class 3 felony; and (9) 2 counts of aggravated battery of a person with a physical

disability (720 ILCS 5/12-3.05(d)(2) (West 2022)), a Class 3 felony.

¶7 B. Detention Proceedings

¶8 On March 12, 2024, defendant, still being held in detention and unable to post bond, filed

a “Motion for Reconsideration of Pretrial Release Conditions or, in the alternative Furlough

Defendant” (Motion) pursuant to sections 110-7.5 and 110-5(e) of the Code (725 ILCS 5/110-7.5,

110-5(e) (West 2022)). Defendant argued that he should be released with a requirement that he be

placed at Nexus-Onarga (Onarga), a juvenile residential and high-school facility specializing in

the treatment of sexually problematic behaviors. Attached to the Motion was an email from Onarga

confirming defendant’s acceptance into the facility.

¶9 Also on March 12, 2024, the State filed a “Verified Petition to Deny Defendant Pretrial

Release” (Petition). The State urged the trial court to deny defendant pretrial release pursuant to

section 110-6.1 of the Code (725 ILCS 5/110-6.1 (West 2022)) because defendant was charged

with (1) a forcible felony as listed in section 110-6.1(a)(1.5) of the Code (725 ILCS 5/110-

6.1(a)(1.5) (West 2022)) or any other felony which involves the threat of or infliction of great

bodily harm or permanent disability or disfigurement and (2) defendant is charged under a relevant

section of Article 11 of the Criminal Code of 2012 (720 ILCS 5/art. 11 (West 2022)). See 725

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ILCS 5/110-6.1(a)(5) (West 2022). The State alleged that defendant’s pretrial release would pose

a real and present threat to the safety of any person or persons or the community.

¶ 10 At a March 18, 2024 hearing, the trial court heard arguments from both parties concerning

the Motion and Petition. Prior to the hearing, the State presented the trial court and defense counsel

with a police department synopsis of facts. At the hearing, the State proffered as follows. On

February 21, 2023, after the family had gone to bed, defendant’s 15-year-old sister, S.T., heard her

younger 13-year-old sister, A.L., crying out. A.L., who is nonverbal and noncommunicative, has

multiple diagnoses of physical and mental conditions which confine her mostly to a wheelchair or

bed. A.L.’s room has active cameras to aid her parents in monitoring her nighttime care. S.T. was

unable to open A.L.’s locked door and began pounding on it until defendant, appearing flustered,

unlocked and opened the door. S.T.

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