PEOPLE v. ONE 1986 MAZDA PICKUP TRUCK

No. 76349.

642 N.E.2d 455 (1994)

162 Ill.2d 67

204 Ill.Dec. 754

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. ONE 1986 WHITE MAZDA PICKUP TRUCK (Mark Brown, Appellee.)

Supreme Court of Illinois.

September 29, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roland W. Burris, Atty. Gen., Springfield, and David R. Akemann, State's Atty., of St. Charles (Norbert J. Goetten, Robert J. Biderman and Jeffrey K. Davison, Springfield, and William L. Browers and Lisa Anne Hoffman, Elgin, all of the Office of the State's Attys. Appellate Prosecutor, of counsel), for the People.

Fred M. Morelli, Jr., of Morelli & Cook, of Aurora (Wilson Burnell, of Oswego, of counsel), for appellee.


Justice HEIPLE delivered the opinion of the court:

Resolution of this case requires this court to interpret the meaning of the word "facilitate" as it is used in section 505(a)(3) of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act (Act) (Ill. Rev.Stat.1991, ch. 56½, par. 1505(a)(3)).

The parties stipulated that Mark Brown was stopped in his truck on October 9, 1991, due to a warrant which had issued for Brown's failure to appear on a traffic violation. The police...

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