Legal Opinion
People v. Fragoso
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided January 18, 1979No. 78-1433, 78-1879 consPublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Romiti
This is a State appeal, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 604(a)(1) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 110A, par. 604(a)(1)), of a trial court order quashing a search warrant and suppressing evidence obtained by the execution of that warrant. We must determine whether that warrant described with sufficient particularity the place to be searched and the things to be seized.
The affidavit in the complaint for the search warrant states:
“I, Off. Thomas West #4573, a Police Officer in the City of Chicago and currently assigned to the Gang Crimes Investigations Division/South, had occassion [sic] to converse…
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