PEOPLE v. CARPENTER

No. 1-05-0464.

856 N.E.2d 551 (2006)

368 Ill. App.3d 288

305 Ill.Dec. 746

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Derrick CARPENTER, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

September 26, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Pamela Rubeo, Assistant Appellate Defender, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for Appellant.

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago (James E. Fitzgerald and Samuel Shim, of counsel), for Appellee.


Presiding Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

Most of us, at some point in our lives, will create a secret hiding place for items we wish to protect against intrusion by others. But when the owner or driver of a vehicle intends to conceal the hiding place from the police, or to conceal something in it from the police, he runs afoul of a criminal statute. The important question in this case is whether the statute offends the due process provisions of...

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