PEOPLE v. CONNER

No. 51687.

78 Ill.2d 525 (1979)

401 N.E.2d 513

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. LENORA CONNER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed December 20, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Donald B. Mackay and Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, and Marcia B. Orr and Carol A. Kearney, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

No appearance for appellee.


Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

This case involves a motion to suppress evidence obtained in an allegedly illegal search. According to the defendant, the police officers' failure to announce their authority and purpose prior to the execution of the search warrant for narcotics violated the defendant's constitutional right, guaranteed under the...

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