PEOPLE v. ANDREAS

No. 80-1963.

100 Ill. App.3d 396 (1981)

426 N.E.2d 1078

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JOHN ANDREAS, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (2nd Division).

Opinion filed September 15, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Marcia B. Orr, Adrienne Noble Nacev, and Alexander Vroustouris, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Patrick G. Reardon and Lawrence J. Suffredin, Jr., both of Chicago, for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE HARTMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant was charged with two counts of possession of controlled substances. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 56 1/2, pars. 704(e) and 705(e).) The State appeals the trial court's ruling sustaining defendant's motion to suppress evidence based on the opening of a container by the police in the absence of a search warrant and raises the issue of whether contraband found within the...

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