People v. Pakula

The defendants, Annette Pakula and her husband, Steven Pakula, were indicted by a Will County grand jury for the offense of possession of more than 500 grams of a substance containing cannabis. The cannabis was seized by the police from the defendants’ back yard where it was growing. Prior to trial, the defendants moved to suppress the cannabis. The trial court granted defendants’ motion to suppress, ruling that even though the cannabis was plainly observable from outside the premises of the defendants’ home and yard, and the police could discern that it was cannabis from a location where…