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2005 Illinois 735 ILCS 5/ Code of Civil Procedure. Part 20 - Crime Victims
(735 ILCS 5/2‑2001)
Sec. 2‑2001.
Crime victims.
A victim of crime as defined in Section 2.3
of the Criminal Victims' Asset Discovery Act shall have a cause of action
against a defendant who has been convicted of a crime, or found not guilty by
reason of insanity or guilty but mentally ill of a crime, to recover damages
suffered by the victim of the crime.
The Civil
Practice Law shall apply in the proceedings, and the case shall be tried as in
other civil cases. If the victim is deceased, the next of kin may maintain the
action.
(Source: P.A. 88‑378.)
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