Supreme Court of Illinois

Conviction for felony criminal damage to property is affirmed over claims that defendant's inculpatory statement should not have been admitted because of the delay which occurred in bringing him before a judge after his warrantless arrest where: 1) police had probable cause to make the initial warrantless arrest; and 2) the proper test for voluntariness considers a number of factors, of which delay is only one, and the trial judge "skillfully examined all of the factors" bearing on voluntariness and properly "concluded that the defendant's inculpatory statement was indeed voluntary."

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/03/2005
• Published 06/03/2005

Judges

• Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Linda D. Woloshin, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, Renee G. Goldfarb, Alan J. Spellberg, John E. Nowak, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.


• For Appellees:
  
• James K. Leven, Chicago, for appellee.