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Appeals court reverses detention order for man accused of filming minors · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Appeals court reverses detention order for man accused of filming miners.
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  Written by Tom Collins, This article is being read by
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  an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. A Quad
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  City's man has been jailed on charges of secretly filming
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  miners in Marseilles. Jackson Yeager successfully appealed, however, and may
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  get pre trial release. Yager, thirty five, of Colonna, faces
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  up to one hundred and fifty years if convicted of
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  some of his ten felonies, led by possession of child
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  sex abuse materials. A judge ruled in February that he
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  presented a danger to others and ordered him detained. Thursday, however,
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  an appeals court reversed that decision into two to one ruling.
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  Yeager remains in LaSalle County jail and he remains charged,
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  but the ruling will force a due overhearing on detention.
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  A court date is pending in LaSalle County Circuit Court,
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  Lasal County. The state's attorney, Joe Navarro, said he and
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  his staff are reviewing Thursday's ruling and will consider whether
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  to appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court. Jaeger was charged
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  in February after evidence emerged that teens in the Marseille
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  area were filmed in a bathroom equipped with a hidden camera.
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  At a detention hearing, public defender Ryan Hamer argued Yaeger
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  was a good candidate for pre trial release. Yeger has
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  no criminal history and scored low on a risk assessment.
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  A simple no contact order, Hamer said, would protect the miners.
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  LaSalle County Circuit Judge Michelle A. Vescagni disagreed placing Yeager
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  on GPS monitoring and telling him to stay away is
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  not enough, the judge ruled. Thursday, the Third District Appellate
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  Court reversed her detention ruling. Justice Matthew Bertani wrote that
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  conditions of pre trial release were available to protect others.
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  In our view, the states proffer disproportionately relied on the
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  severity of the sex offense charged and circumstances in requesting
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  defendant's detention. Britani wrote the appeals court did not simply
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  order Yeager to be freed. LaSalle County prosecutors could prevail
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  at the do overhearing and might argue Thursday's appelle at
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  ruling wasn't unanimous. Justice John C. Anderson wrote in a
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  dissenting opinion that prosecutors made a good case for holding Yeager.
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  There appears to be no dispute that the video evidence
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  depicts Yeager setting up the camera to covertly record the miners.
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  Anderson said Yeager also attempted to contact the victim's family
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  while he was in jail, which reflects on his inability
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  to abide by court orders and conditions.