Supreme Court of Illinois

Defendant's detention, following the conclusion of the purpose of the traffic stop, was unreasonable within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, and tainted the resulting discovery of heroin.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/21/2003
• Published 10/06/2003

Judges

• Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (William L. Browers, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, Renee Goldfarb, Theodore Fotios Burtzos and Shital H. Thakkar, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard J. Dvorak, Chicago, for appellee.