SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 8 -- The Illinois Courts Office issued the following opinion on April 10:
1. Illinois lawyers and judges are grappling with a watershed change to pretrial detention under article 110 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 (Code) (725 ILCS 5/art. 110 (West 2022)), as amended by Public Act 101-652 (eff. Jan. 1, 2023), commonly known as the Pretrial Fairness Act. In this interlocutory appeal, Lisa Boose challenges a provision permitting the trial court to impose jail time as a sanction for the violation of a pretrial condition of release. But to reach her claims, we must have jurisdiction. And we hold that we do not. Thus, however compelling her claims may be in the abstract, we have to dismiss this appeal as lacking...