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Pick the situation that is yours and put in each date once, on the stage it belongs to. The page shows the stage you are at and the period the statutes set after it, with whose period it is and the section it comes from. It says what the law sets, never what to do about it.

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Which situation is yours

Three free calls within three hours of reaching the station, a judge without unnecessary delay, and trial within one hundred twenty days for a person held in custody.

After an arrest. 3 stages, from Phone calls after an arrest.

  1. Stage 1 · What the statutes set next

    Phone calls after an arrest

    Period
    3 hours
    From
    Arrival at the first place of detention
    Whose
    The police holding the person

    A person in police custody may communicate free of charge with a lawyer and family as soon as possible and no later than 3 hours after arriving, with access to a phone to make 3 calls.

    The whole of it: Phone Calls After an Arrest →725 ILCS 5/103-3.5

  2. Stage 2 · Later in the statutes

    Before a judge, in a regional jail county

    Period
    48 hours
    From
    The arrest, for an offense where release may be denied
    Whose
    The arresting agency

    The person is taken before a judge without unnecessary delay, and where the county takes part in a regional jail authority, before the nearest judge within 48 hours, and a charge is filed.

    The whole of it: Release After an Arrest →725 ILCS 5/109-1

  3. Stage 3 · Later in the statutes

    Trial for a person in custody

    Period
    120 days
    From
    The day the person was taken into custody
    Whose
    The State

    A person in custody for the alleged offense is tried within 120 days, not counting delay the defendant causes, a fitness examination or hearing, or an interlocutory appeal.

    The whole of it: A Lawyer, and How Soon the Trial Comes →725 ILCS 5/103-5

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What the law asks of each side between them, a step at a time: A Night in Custody

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