CONVICTED CLERK FILES APPEAL IN DISTRICT COURT >
> Former Iroquois County Clerk Mark Henrichs has filed an appeal of his conviction and the court-ordered restitution he was ordered to make following a trial that found him guilty of theft and official misconduct. Just released from the Kankakee County jail after serving 30 days of a 60-day jail sentence, Henrichs filed the notice of appeal December 4 in the Third District of the Illinois Appellate Court in Ottawa.
Henrichs also requested an attorney be appointed to represent him, saying in an affadavit filed with the notice of appeal that he is unable to retain the services of his private attorney, Frank Simutis of Watseka, to pursue the appeal. A hearing was scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 14 before Judge William Schmidt in Iroquois County Circuit Court to consider the appointment of an attorney.
The appeal requests the court overturn his theft and official misconduct convictions, as well as the sentence he was ordered to serve – consisting of 30 months of probation, 60 days in jail, and restitution of $17,500 to the county within the first two years of his release from jail. An Iroquois County jury found the 53-year-old Henrichs guilty of arranging for the county clerk’s office to buy a camping trailer for use as a mobile-voting facility in February 2007, while hiding from the county board that he owned it, and that he had paid half as much for it 16 months earlier.
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