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PEOPLE v. HOSKINS

No. 56657.

101 Ill.2d 209 (1984)

461 N.E.2d 941

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. BARBARA J. HOSKINS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied March 30, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield, and John A. Barra, State's Attorney, of Peoria (Michael B. Weinstein and Michael V. Accettura, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and John X. Breslin and Rita Kennedy Mertel, of the State's Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of Ottawa, of counsel), for the People.

G. Joseph Weller, Deputy Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Elgin, for appellee.

Judgments reversed; cause remanded.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal involves a search of the defendant's purse following her arrest for prostitution (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 11-14(a)(2)). Based on evidence seized from her purse, she was charged by a criminal information with unlawful possession of a controlled substance (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 56 1/2, par. 1402(b)) and unlawful possession of a hypodermic syringe and...

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