Coles County State’s Attorney, Staff Member, And Convicted Former ASA Lose Key Motions To Dismiss

Coles Co. (ECWd) –

It would take a book to cover all the things that have taken place in the Coles County State’s Attorney’s office in the dealings with now convicted Assistant State’s Attorney Brady Allen.  We first broke the story about Allen in this article in 2020. To grasp the volume of information, we suggest reading all the articles published at this link.

Allen’s criminal activity and other alleged actions by the State’s Attorney, Jessie Danley, and a paralegal staff member, Rhonda Parker, resulted in a Federal Lawsuit being filed, which has now ended up back in the circuit court of Coles County.

Reading the two recent orders from the court appears to indicate there are serious problems in the Coles County Office of the State’s Attorney.

• “Plaintiff alleges Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress against Parker in Count V and against Danley in Count VI.”
  • “The Court finds that Plaintiff has alleged sufficient ultimate facts to support the required elements to state a cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress in both Counts V and VJ. This Court holds that Parker’s and Danley’s Motion to Dismiss Counts V and
    VI should be denied.”
• “Plaintiff alleges civil conspiracy against all defendants.”
  • “This Court holds under the analysis required in deciding Defendants 2-615 Motion to Dismiss, Plaintiff has stated a cause of action for civil conspiracy against Defendants Brady Allen, Ronda Parker, and Jesse Danley. Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss Count VII pursuant to 2-615 should be denied.”
• “Plaintiff alleges Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress against Brady Allen in Count IV.”
  • “The Court finds that Plaintiff has alleged sufficient ultimate facts to support the required elements to state a cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress in Count IV. This Court holds Allen’s Motion to Dismiss Count IV, pursuant to 2-615, should be denied.”
• Plaintiff alleges violations of the Gender Violence Act, under 740 ILCS 82/1, et seq., against Brady Allen”
  • “The Court finds that Plaintiff has alleged sufficient ultimate facts to state a cause of action under the Gender Violence Act against Brady Allen. This Court holds Allen’s Motion to Dismiss Count VIII pursuant to 735 ILCS 5/2-615 should be denied.”

The defamation claims were dismissed; however, the court provided the Plaintiff with thirty days to amend Count 1.

A copy of the court’s two orders can be downloaded here and here or viewed below.

We do not recall any of this information being shared on the local news.  If it was, great.  If it was not, why not?