Defendant was found guilty of being an armed habitual criminal and was sentenced to nine years in prison. On appeal, he challenged the trial court’s denial of his pretrial motion to quash arrest and suppress evidence, as well as the propriety of his sentence. The appellate court reversed the denial of defendant’s motion to suppress, reversed his conviction, and vacated his sentence because the State could not sustain the charge without the evidence that should have been suppressed. The appellate court explained that police officers lacked a reasonable articulable suspicion to search the defendant where there was no wrongdoing or flight to evade officers and where officers were investigating a call that did not involved the defendant. (PUCINSKI, concurring and HYMAN, specially concurring)
Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Motion to Suppress