What the Record Establishes
- The Second District received the appeal and assigned it a number. That is an official court record, not a claim.
- Ten instruments were file-stamped on July 23, after months in which filings were refused, reclassified, or lost.
- The reviewing court now holds a record the trial court never resolved.
What They Have Not Produced
- Whether the pending for-cause substitution motion was ever referred to a different judge.
- Disposition of the emergency motions to supplement.
- Whether the August 6 setting proceeds before the judge named in the motion.
After a year of paper going into a system and not coming back out, one number changes the venue: 2-26-0352. The Lake County notice of appeal bears a July 23 file stamp. The Illinois Appellate Court, Second District, confirmed receipt in its own one-page notice and assigned the case its number. That document is not an argument. It is the reviewing court’s own record.
Ten instruments cleared the counter on one day
The same July 23 stamp appears on a separate filing index, a fifty-nine-page shared appendix, a motion to correct docket classification, an emergency Rule 609(a) stay and bail motion, a verified petition for appointment of a special prosecutor, a Rule 607 indigency and counsel motion, a renewed Rule 606(a) request, a verified renewed motion for substitution of judge for cause, and the notice of appeal itself. Set that against June 8, when the clerk’s office refused the filing path in writing.
What is asked and what is proven are kept apart on purpose
The docket notice proves the appeal exists. The emergency packet asks for stay, warrant relief, bail, the record, counsel, and substitution. Those are requests, and they stay labeled as requests until an order says otherwise. Sites that turn a filed motion into a granted result burn their own credibility and hand the other side an easy win. This archive gets the verbs right because the verbs are what will survive.