THE PEOPLE v. KEELEN

Gen. No. 52,755.

130 Ill. App.2d 52 (1970)

264 N.E.2d 753

People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Leonard Keelen, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Second Division.

October 13, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald W. Getty, Public Defender of Cook County, of Chicago (Theodore A. Gottfried and James J. Doherty, Assistant Public Defenders, James R. Bronner, James Haddad, and William Martin, Northwestern University Law School, of counsel), for appellant.

Edward V. Hanrahan, State's Attorney of Cook County, of Chicago (Elmer C. Kissane and Arthur Belkind, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE BURKE delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendant was found guilty at a bench trial of the crime of possession of narcotics and was sentenced to a term of five years to eight years in the penitentiary. He appeals.

Defendant filed a pretrial motion to suppress certain evidence seized by police officers in a search of premises occupied by him without first having obtained a search warrant. At the hearing on the motion, defendant was called as a...

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