People v. Wells

PRESIDING JUSTICE KUEHN

delivered the opinion of the court:

This case features an application of the exclusionary rule to a pair of shoes acquired from defendant’s home. The search of the home that produced the shoes may have violated defendant’s right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. Then again, the search may have been entirely reasonable. The constitution’s plan for reasonable searches, those made with judicial approval, may have been honored to perfection. No one really knows.

We do know that on August 4, 1967, the Alton police entered and searched defendant’s home. The sole…