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PEOPLE v. LAWS

No. 53399.

84 Ill.2d 493 (1981)

419 N.E.2d 1150

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. HERBERT LAWS, JR., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed April 17, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone Fahner and William J. Scott, Attorneys General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley and Bernard Carey, State's Attorneys, of Chicago (Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Mark L. Rotert, and Donald B. Mackay, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Marcia B. Orr and Joel A. Stein, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Ralph Ruebner, Deputy Defender, and Michael J. Pelletier, Assistant Appellate Defender, of the Office of State Appellate Defender, of Chicago, for appellee.

Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE RYAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a denial of a motion to quash a search warrant and to suppress evidence, defendant, Herbert Laws, Jr., and the prosecution entered into a stipulation of facts from which the circuit court of Cook County, in a bench trial, found the defendant guilty of possession of a controlled substance. The defendant...

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