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PEOPLE v. SORENSON

No. 89262.

752 N.E.2d 1078 (2001)

196 Ill.2d 425

256 Ill.Dec. 836

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Brian K. SORENSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

June 21, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel D. Yuhas, Deputy Defender, Judith L. Libby and Keleigh L. Biggins, Assistant Defenders, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Springfield, for appellant.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, and William L. Browers and Mary A. Fleming, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Justice THOMAS delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Brian K. Sorenson, was charged with one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance (720 ILCS 570/402(c) (West 1996)), after police discovered cocaine in one of his unlaced hiking boots during a pat-down search following a traffic stop. The circuit court of Sangamon County denied the defendant's motion to suppress the evidence seized from the boot, finding that the search was valid because...

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