People v. Colyar

PRESIDING JUSTICE GARCIA

delivered the opinion of the court:

The State appeals the circuit court’s order granting defendant Michael Colyar’s motion to suppress bullets and a gun seized from the defendant’s car. The State argues that after the officers saw a bullet in plain view inside the defendant’s car, they reasonably believed the bullet indicated the presence of a gun; thus, the officers acted lawfully in ordering the defendant and his passengers out of the car, securing them in front of the car by handcuffing them, seizing the bullet in plain view in a plastic bag, which contained other…