Supreme Court of Illinois

During the course of a routine traffic stop, a police officer's mere request for identification from a passenger does not run afoul of federal and state constitutional prohibitions against unreasonable seizures.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/17/2003
• Published 06/02/2003

Judges

• Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Joseph E. Birkett, State's Attorney, Wheaton (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, William L. Browers and Kristen L. Hopkins, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, and Norbert J. Goetten, Martin P. Moltz and Lawrence M. Bauer, of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Elgin, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for appellee.