PEOPLE v. FOOTE

No. 80-2197.

104 Ill. App.3d 581 (1982)

432 N.E.2d 1254

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CAREY FOOTE et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (5th Division).

Opinion filed February 26, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Marcia B. Orr, James S. Veldman, and Dean C. Morask, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Adam Bourgeois and Michael Null, both of Chicago, for appellees.


Reversed and remanded.

JUSTICE MEJDA delivered the opinion of the court:

The 18 individual defendants herein were charged with obscenity for exhibiting films in violation of section 11-20(a)(3) of the Criminal Code of 1961 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 11-20(a)(3)). On August 13, 1979, 37 search warrants were issued authorizing the seizure of one film at each of 37 different adult bookstores in Chicago, Illinois. The 18 defendants were arrested following...

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