Supreme Court of Illinois

In the matter of an indictment for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after a police officer seized a handgun from defendant's sleeve during a pat-down search, a motion to quash the arrest and suppress the handgun from evidence is denied where defendant voluntarily consented to the pat-down search and the encounter that preceded defendant's consent was not a seizure.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/24/2005
• Published 03/24/2005

Judges

• Justice GARMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Chelsey Robinson, Maria R. Owens, of Owens & Robinson, Chicago, for appellant., Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Joseph E. Birkett, State's Attorney, Wheaton (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Linda D. Woloshin, Assata N. Peterson, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.