People v. Carlton

Pursuant to Rule 604(a)(1) (87 Ill. 2d R. 604(a)(1)), the State appealed from an order of the circuit court of Du Page County suppressing evidence seized by the police from the trunk of a car in which the defendant, Mark J. Carlton, was a passenger. However, the prosecutor failed to certify that suppression of the evidence substantially impaired the State’s ability to prosecute the case. The appellate court held that by virtue of our opinion in People v. Young (1980), 82 Ill. 2d 234, the State may not seek an interlocutory appeal of a pretrial suppression order unless it certifies to the…