Initial Finding of Mental Unfitness Reversed and Aggravated Domestic Battery Charges Dismissed
In the case of People of the State of Illinois v. M.P., in Rolling Meadows, Third Municipal District, the Aggravated Domestic Battery charges against Sheppard Law Firm’s client were dismissed. When the Sheppards first met the defendant she was in custody in the Cook County Jail awaiting shipment to the Elgin Mental Health Center after a Cook County judge had found her unfit to stand trial. Sheppard Law Firm motioned the case back into court, obtained a second opinion regarding the defendant’s fitness to stand trial, and convinced the Cook County Mental Health Forensic Services to reverse its opinion regarding the defendant’s fitness to stand trial. Accordingly, the court also reversed its initial finding of unfitness and the defendant was released from custody. As to the case-in-chief, the charges of Aggravated Domestic Battery — the defendant had been accused of battering her mother-in-law — were dismissed.