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PEOPLE v. KANTOWSKI

No. 56761.

98 Ill.2d 75 (1983)

455 N.E.2d 1379

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. JOHN KANTOWSKI, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed October 21, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan and Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorneys General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Michael B. Weinstein, Assistant Attorney General, and Michael E. Shabat, Joan S. Cherry, Marie Quinlivan, Anthony John Calabreese, and Joel A. Stein, Assistant State's Attorneys, all of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Ackerman and Egan, Ltd., of Chicago (Allan A. Ackerman, of counsel, and Paul Karasik, law student), for appellee.

Judgments reversed; cause remanded.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, John Kantowski, was charged by an information in two counts with the unlawful use of weapons. Both counts were based upon his possession of a revolver. The circuit court of Cook County allowed the defendant's pretrial motion to suppress the introduction into evidence of the revolver, which was seized at the time he was arrested.

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