People v. Shapiro

Docket No. 81920–Agenda 28–May 1997.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. CRAIG L. SHAPIRO et al ., Appellees.

Opinion filed October 17, 1997.

At issue is the constitutionality of the United States Postal Service’s detention and investigation of a suspicious package, and of the search warrants and arrests which ensued. The Framers of the United States Constitution believed a uniform, safe and secure mail delivery system so important to our democracy that the United States Constitution requires Congress to establish a post office. U.S. Const., art. I, §8, cl. 7. Indeed, at the…