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Quincy man argues confinement ruling in Appeals Court

Quincy man argues confinement ruling in Appeals Court

4 years, 11 months ago by Scott Hardy

Donald Pruett says standard to confine him wasn't high enough

A Quincy man, declared to be a sexually violent person, says that evaluation scores obtained by two prosecution experts weren't high enough.

That argument was made Wednesday by an attorney for Donald Pruett at a hearing of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Pruett is appealing a decision, handed down by an Adams County jury in November 2017 that he's sexually violent. His attorney also argued that the two experts' scores weren't high enough to consider Pruett "substantially probable" to re-offend. An attorney with the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutors Office argued that the scores were high enough, which both experts testified to. That 2017 ruling, which came after a two-day trial, means that Pruett is to be held by the Illinois Department of Human Services until he’s ruled to not be violent. Pruett pleaded Guilty in 2013 in Adams County to one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a victim under 13, from a February 2013 incident. Before his arrest, he was involved in a stand-off with Quincy police for 21 hours.

A ruling from the Appellate Court is likely within the next few weeks.

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