ILLINOIS/WISCONSIN
Chicago Tribune
By Alexandra Chachkevitch
Tribune reporter
2:26 p.m. CDT, July 14, 2014
A Glenview priest who has been charged with theft failed to show up in court today for a second time.
The lawyer for the Rev. James Dokos said his client was absent because he had been admitted to a hospital for an emergency. Attorney Patrick Knight told the court commissioner overseeing the hearing in Milwaukee this afternoon that he couldn’t disclose the nature of Dokos’ medical emergency, but that he had called the undisclosed hospital to confirm Dokos has been admitted.
The court commissioner, Barry Phillips, ordered Dokos to appear in court on Thursday and said he would activate a warrant for Dokos’ arrest if fails to appear, unless the priest is still in the hospital. The prosecutor, Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney David Feiss, did not object.
Dokos, who is pastor at Saints Peter and Paul Greek Orthodox Church in Glenview, had been scheduled to make his first appearance in court on the theft charge last Thursday. His attorney then told the court that Dokos didn’t make it because of car trouble.
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