People v. Perkins

PRESIDING JUSTICE HARRISON

delivered the opinion of the court:

On March 31, 1986, the defendant, Lloyd Perkins, was charged by criminal complaint with murder in violation of section 9 — 1(a)(1) of the Criminal Code of 1961 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 9 — 1(a)(1)). The State issued a warrant for the defendant’s arrest the next day. On June 19, 1986, a grand jury in St. Clair County handed up an indictment of the defendant for murder. On April 8, 1987, the circuit court of St. Clair County granted the defendant’s motion to suppress statements made to an undercover police officer and to an…