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- Title: People v. Conner
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 20, 1979
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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This case involves a motion to suppress evidence obtained in an allegedly illegal search. According to the defendant, the police officers' failure to announce their authority and purpose prior to the execution of the search warrant for narcotics violated the defendant's constitutional right, guaranteed under the fourth and fourteenth amendments, to be free from unreasonable searches. The circuit court of Cook County found the existence of exigent circumstances to obviate a knock and announce requirement and denied the motion to suppress. The defendant was subsequently convicted by a jury of possession of more than 30 grams of heroin, in violation of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 56 1/2, par. 1402(a)). The appellate court, with one justice dissenting, reversed the conviction, holding that the motion to suppress should have been granted. (67 Ill. App.3d 133.) The issue before this court is whether the heroin should have been suppressed as being the result of an unreasonable search. We find the search to be reasonable and reverse the judgment of the appellate court. At the time of the search, defendant, Lenora Conner, resided in a three-story brick building located at 3648 South Martin Luther King Drive in Chicago. The building could be described as impregnable: there were burglar bars on all of the first-floor windows; the doors, some of which were made of steel, were secured with either a single or double set of burglar bars; and 12 crossbred German shepherd — Great Dane dogs guarded the premises. The building also had mirrors located outside the defendant's bedroom window; these mirrors enabled the occupant to view the premises without having to go to the window.
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