PEOPLE v. BRETT

No. 82-1688.

122 Ill. App.3d 191 (1984)

460 N.E.2d 876

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KENNETH EDGAR BRETT, Defendant-Appellee.

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

Opinion filed February 28, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Michael E. Shabat, Bruce A. Cardello, and Edward A. Stephens, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

David S. Mejia, of Chicago, for appellee.


Judgment reversed.

JUSTICE DOWNING delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal by the State from an order suppressing evidence (cocaine) obtained as a result of an allegedly unlawful warrantless search of defendant's person at O'Hare International Airport on December 1, 1981. The trial court found defendant submitted to a search of his person because he felt he had no alternative but to submit to authority and that this constituted a seizure within...

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