LEKAS v. ILLINOIS

No. 87-5803.

485 U.S. 942 (1988)

LEKAS v. ILLINOIS.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 7, 1988.


Certiorari denied.

JUSTICE WHITE, dissenting.

This petition presents a constitutional issue over which the state courts are divided: whether the confrontation of a detainee with new evidence or another's confession is a sufficient intervening event to purge the taint of an allegedly unlawful arrest. The Appellate Court of Illinois held that it was, notwithstanding the facts that the confession here occurred during a period of continued detention following...

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