Island Lake officer wrote 57 tickets!

Gus Philpott
Woodstock Advocate
September 27, 2010

Checking court records this morning, I learned that Island Lake PD Officer David Walz wrote 57 tickets last week to Seth Pedersen.

Is there a little training needed at Island Lake P.D.? Is this like throwing mud against a wall and hoping some of it will stick?

If you want to see an example of wastefulness of government assets, go to www.mchenrycircuitclerk.org and look up Seth Pedersen. Those tickets are now in the system. I wish I had the time and energy to click on each one and list the 57 tickets here.

A public defender was appointed for Pedersen.
A bond hearing is scheduled for 9:00AM today, which probably means that Pedersen was a guest in the Nygren Hotel for a few days.
A plea date is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 30, 9:00AM in Judge Condon's courtroom.

Do you suppose that Pedersen's attorney (public defender) will require that each charge be read separately, rights read for each ticket, and a plea heard on each one? If I were the public defender, that's what I would do. Just to make a big deal out of it.

Let's see; how long would Judge Condon have to sit there? Say, 2-3 minutes for each case. Times 57. That's 171 minutes, or almost three hours.

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P.S. How long did it take Ofc. Walz to write out 57 tickets? Did he suck up some good overtime? Did he have to issue all the tickets before ending his shift? Are Island Lake tickets written by hand or with the aid of a computer?