People v. Comage

Chief Justice Kilbride and Justice Theis concurred in the judgment and opinion.

Justice Freeman specially concurred, with opinion.

Justice Thomas dissented, with opinion, joined by Justices Garman and Karmeier.

OPINION

In this case, we must determine whether certain physical evidence was “concealed” within the meaning of Illinois’ obstructing justice statute when police officers knew where the evidence was and had no difficulty recovering it, but the evidence was out of the officers’ sight for approximately 20 seconds. The appellate court concluded that the evidence was concealed and, on that…