Prosecutor Misconduct No. 1663714112 - 1658325455

Desiree Sierens

Date of Offense

April 4, 2012

Offense(s)

Reporting Authority

This complaint has been forwarded to the Illinois State Bar Association

Statement

States attorney alleged to a grand jury that I had 2 past convictions for dui, and subsequently charged me in Boone County as a third offense. I have repeatedly made the court, my public defender, and the state aware of this fact and am still charged as if this is my third offense. I have only 1 dui conviction which resulted in supervision (which I completed and no longer have a criminal conviction) from 2019. I also have a certified court purposes drivers abstract that also bears this information out. This malicious prosecutor is attempting to convict me for a third offense when I havent been tried or convicted of a second offense under the same statute. This prosecutor has already attempted to tender a felony probation plea deal to my public defender when this should only be charged as a class A misdemeanor, not a class 2 felony. This prosecutor is leveraging defendants by overcharging beyond the laws of the State of Illnois.

Definition of Offense(s)

"Overcharging" refers to a prosecutor bringing excessive or unwarranted charges against a defendant in a criminal case. This can occur when a prosecutor deliberately or recklessly charges someone with more crimes or more serious crimes than the evidence supports.