Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Search & Seizure
Dog sniff by drug-detection dog of door handle and seams of Defendant's motel room violated Defendant's reasonable expectation of privacy in his motel room and could not have been undertaken without a warrant. Heroin seized as a result of the sniff should have been suppressed, as case law were sufficient to have apprised a reasonably well-trained officer that this dog sniff violated 4th amendment. (O'BRIEN, concurring; SCHMIDT, concurring in party and dissenting in part.)