People v. Carpenter

SECOND DIVISION September 26, 2006 No. 1-05-0464 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, ) Appeal from the ) Circuit Court of Plaintiff-Appellee, ) Cook County. ) v. ) ) DERRICK CARPENTER, ) Honorable ) Bertina E. Lampkin, Defendant-Appellant. ) Judge Presiding. PRESIDING JUSTICE WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court: Most of us, at some point in our lives, will create a secret hiding place for items we wish to protect against intrusion by others. But when the owner or driver of a vehicle intends to conceal the hiding place from the police, or to conceal something in it from the police, he…