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PEOPLE v. STEELS

No. 1-93-4500.

660 N.E.2d 24 (1995)

277 Ill.App.3d 123

213 Ill.Dec. 767

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Raymond STEELS, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

Rehearing Denied February 5, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rita A. Fry, Public Defender of Cook County; Frederick Weil, Asst. Public Defender, of Counsel, for appellant.

Jack O'Malley, State's Attorney, County of Cook; Renee Goldfarb, James Fitzgerald, Daniel Groth, Asst. State's Attorneys, for appellee.

Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant's only hope in this case was to persuade the trial judge that the 28 pounds of cannabis found in his suitcase were seized in violation of the fourth amendment. Inexplicably, the defendant's lawyer did not move to suppress the evidence, despite a reasonable probability of success. Convicted by a jury of cannabis trafficking, he was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment.

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