Supreme Court of Illinois

Police effectuated an extraterritorial arrest pursuant to an amendment to section 7-4-8 of the Code, later held to be unconstitutional, thus the amendment is void ab initio and the police officers effectuated an unlawful arrest.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/19/2002
• Published 02/06/2003

Judges

• Justice FREEMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (William L. Browers, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, and Renee G. Goldfarb, Kenneth T. McCurry and Katherine Blakey Cox, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• Marc W. Martin and Alexander Salerno, Chicago, for appellee.