PEOPLE v. ABNEY

No. 50636.

81 Ill.2d 159 (1980)

407 N.E.2d 543

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. WILLIAM ABNEY, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed June 20, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Ronald C. Dozier, State's Attorney, of Bloomington (Donald B. Mackay and Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Robert C. Perry and Jane F. Bularzik, of the State's Attorney's Appellate Service Commission, of Springfield, of counsel), for the People.

Gary G. Johnson, of Normal, for appellee.


Reversed and remanded.

MR. JUSTICE KLUCZYNSKI delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an interlocutory appeal from a suppression order of the circuit court of McLean County. (See 73 Ill.2d R. 604(a)(1).) The appellate court affirmed (58 Ill.App.3d 54), and we allowed the State's petition for leave to appeal. We have held the case under advisement pending the United...

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