By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Long, 2025 IL App (2d) 240237 (August). Episode 1123 (Duration 11:31)
Once that X-ray scan revealed a gun, which defendant acknowledged he was not authorized to have, he lost all possessory interest in that gun as well as the ammunition therein.
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People v. Terrell, 2025 IL App (3d) 240567 (August). Episode 1122 (Duration 14:09)
The partial invalidity of the search warrant for defendant’s phone records related to other shootings does not require that the entire search warrant be quashed.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Pyles, 2025 IL App (4th) 240220 (April). Episode 1108 (Duration 6:28)
An officer’s knowledge that the defendant was on MSR in and of itself renders a suspicionless search reasonable.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Clark, 2024 IL 127838 (December). Episode 1087 (Duration 11:37)
Bass and Smith erred in holding that arrests pursuant to investigative alerts automatically violate the Illinois Constitution.
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People v. Nash, 2024 IL App (4th) 221078 (November). Episode 1078 (Duration 13:08)
The warrant was not removed from the system due simply to a garden-variety clerical error.
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People v. Turner, 2024 IL 129208 (September). Episode 1068 (Duration 9:32)
Defendant did not meet his burden of establishing that he had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the trauma room in the hospital’s emergency department.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Heibenthal, 2024 IL App (4th) 221109 (February). Episode 1029 (Duration 8:34)
Defendant argued it is unfathomable that two seasoned police officers who work for the State of Illinois, could not discern that a witness in deed had a a valid Medical Cannabis License.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Streater, 2023 IL App (1st) 220640 (November). Episode 1015 (Duration 4:07)
We choose to follow the well-reasoned decision in Braswell, and those cases following it, and agree that, where probable cause exists, a warrantless public arrest based on an investigative alert or an instruction to arrest from the investigating officer is constitutional, so long as it is supported by probable cause.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Parlier, 2023 IL App (4th) 220091 (February). Episode 981 (Duration 17:07)
People with an interest in child pornography tend to hoard their materials and retain them for a long time.
[Read more…]By Samuel Partida, Jr.
People v. Turner, 2022 IL App (5th) 190329 (October). Episode 964 (Duration 8:14)
Defendant here had no possessory interest in the ER, and there is no evidence that defendant had the ability to exclude others.
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