People v. Jackson

The trial court granted a motion to suppress the defendant’s bank records obtained through a grand jury subpoena served on her Illinois bank. The court held that the subpoena violated the defendant’s constitutional right to privacy by an unreasonable seizure of her bank records. The State appeals this ruling.

On December 6, 1978, the defendant, Hazel Jackson, was fired from her job as a closing officer at Intercounty Title Company. On December 12, 1979, an employee of Intercounty phoned the State’s Attorney’s office of Cook County and related his suspicions that the defendant had been involved…