People v. Holdman

The defendants, Leonard Holdman and BeWayne Williams, were convicted of armed robbery in a jury trial and were each sentenced to 4 to 6 years’ imprisonment. 1 On appeal we reversed their convictions, finding that they had been arrested without probable cause, so that resulting identifications upon which their convictions were based should have been suppressed as the fruit of the illegality. (People v. Holdman (1977), 51 Ill. App. 3d 484, 366 N.E.2d 993.) Our supreme court, having allowed the State’s petition for leave to appeal, found the arrests proper and reversed our judgment, remanding to…