The PEOPLE v. Kapande

This case involves a criminal information filed in the county court of Cook County charging the defendants with being keepers of a common gaming house and a civil action filed in the same court alleging that the defendants were the keepers of a gambling house at the same address charged in the criminal information, and that the $89,284.75 seized by the State constituted a functional, integral part of a gambling operation and should be forfeited as contraband. To properly understand the issues presented in the above cases which were consolidated, it is necessary to state in detail the…