People v. Markiewicz

The issue raised by the State in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in granting the defendant’s motion to suppress statements inculpating herself in the murder of her husband and mother.

Her husband, Steven Markiewicz, and her mother, Margaret Tomasik, were shot to death on October 30,1973. Around noon that day the police arrived at the defendant’s home and found her unconscious from an overdose of tranquilizers, sleeping pills and aspirin. The policemen placed her on a stretcher and took her to the emergency room of the South Chicago Hospital. Upon arrival she was in a coma and near…