People v. Young

We granted the State leave to appeal from an order of the appellate court (76 Ill. App. 3d 210) dismissing its interlocutory appeal from a pretrial order that “suppressed” certain evidence the State intended to introduce at trial. The issue before us is whether our Rule 604(a)(1) (73 Ill. 2d R. 604(a)(1)) permits the State to appeal from a pretrial order excluding evidence on grounds other than that the evidence was obtained as the result of an unlawful search and seizure or an involuntary confession.

The defendant, Michael Young, was charged in the circuit court of De Kalb County with leaving…