People v. Bailey

PRESIDING JUSTICE SCARIANO

delivered the opinion of the court:

After a stipulated bench trial before Judge Stuart Palmer, defendant Richard Bailey was found guilty of armed violence, cannabis trafficking, and possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver, and was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment and fined $36,050. He now appeals, claiming that his consent to the search of his luggage was not voluntary; rather, that it was solely the result of a coercive, misleading, and legally insupportable threat by a law enforcement official to detain and subject defendant’s luggage to a narcotics…