Legal Opinion
People v. Schmitt
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided March 30, 2004No. 4-03-0445PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Appleton
The State charged defendant, James A. Schmitt, with various drug offenses, but the trial court granted in part his motion to quash his arrest and suppress the evidence against him. Having filed a certificate of impairment, the State appeals, arguing the police had probable cause to stop and search the truck Schmitt was driving. Because we agree with the State, we reverse the quashing of Schmitt’s arrest and the suppression of evidence, and we remand this case for further proceedings.
I. BACKGROUND
Early in the afternoon on August 13, 2002, Mike Cottrell, a loss-prevention manager at Wal-Mart in…
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