People v. Weissinger

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SEIDENFELD

delivered the opinion of the court:

The State has appealed from a pretrial order which suppressed the analysis of blood taken from defendant without his consent following an accident which led to an indictment charging him with reckless homicide.

While a question had been raised whether the trial court suppressed the evidence on statutory or constitutional grounds, the distinction does not affect appealability pursuant to the recent Illinois Supreme Court case of People v. Young (1980), 82 Ill. 2d 234.

The blood sample was taken on the initiative of a doctor at…