People v. Ross

The State brings this interlocutory appeal (87 Ill. 2d R. 604(a)(1)) from the trial court’s order granting the motion to suppress evidence of defendant, Ronald R. Ross.

The State presents two issues for review: (1) whether the trial court’s ruling in granting the motion to suppress evidence recovered in a warrantless search of the defendant’s person was manifestly erroneous considering the totality of the circumstances; and (2) whether a good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule exists here even if the police officers were mistaken in their assessment of probable cause to search the…