PEOPLE v. CLAY

No. 1-01-3886.

811 N.E.2d 276 (2004)

349 Ill.App.3d 24

285 Ill.Dec. 35

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jerry CLAY, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

June 7, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender (Samuel Algozin, of counsel), for Appellant.

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County (Renee Goldfarb, Alan J. Spellberg, William J. Dennison II, of counsel), for Appellee.


Justice McNULTY delivered the opinion of the court:

A jury found defendant, Jerry Clay, guilty of a first degree murder and an armed robbery that occurred at a currency exchange. On appeal defendant argues that the trial court should have suppressed his confession because police lacked probable cause to arrest him. We hold that the discovery of a wallet containing defendant's identification on the sidewalk outside the currency exchange did not give police probable...

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