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PEOPLE v. PRUITT

Nos. 1-94-2387, 1-94-2388 and 1-94-2538.

662 N.E.2d 540 (1996)

278 Ill. App.3d 194

214 Ill.Dec. 974

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Serrick PRUITT, Anthony Brooks, and Johnnie Cheatham, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

February 26, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack O'Malley, State's Attorney, County of Cook (Renee Goldfarb, Kenneth T. McCurry, Gael A. McCaughey-O'Brien, Asst. State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellant.

Patricia J. Whitten, Acting Attorney, Board of Education of City of Chicago (William A. Morgan, Supervising Asst. Attorney, of counsel), in support of People's appeal, for appellant.

Susan S. Sher, Corp. Counsel of City of Chicago; Lawrence Rosenthall, Deputy Corp. Counsel; Benna Ruth Solomon, Chief Asst. Corp. Counsel (John H. Ehrlich, Asst. Corp. Counsel, of counsel), of City of Chicago in support of appellant.

Rita A. Fry, Public Defender of Cook County (Michael Davidson, Asst. Public Defender, of counsel), for appellee.

Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

These three cases arise from searches of high school students in public schools by Chicago police officers. In each case the student was charged with possession of a firearm on school property in violation of 720 ILCS 5/24-1(a)(12) (West 1992).

The charges were based on three separate incidents at three different schools. Two of the cases involved searches of students based on an individualized suspicion...

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