Supreme Court of Illinois

Evidence against defendant must be suppressed because her consent to search was tainted as the product of officers' illegal detention, where the circumstances constituted an official show of authority to which a reasonable innocent person would feel compelled to submit.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2003
• Published 03/05/2003

Judges

• Chief Justice McMORROW delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel D. Yuhas, Deputy Defender, and Martin J. Ryan, Assistant Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, for appellant., James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, Larry S. Mills, State's Attorney, Danville (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, William L. Browers, and Kendall R. Mills, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.