People v. Gabbard

After a trial by jury in the circuit court of Sangamon County, the defendant, Danny Ray Gabbard, was convicted of burglary and armed robbery, and was sentenced to serve from 20 to 40 years’ imprisonment. The appellate court, one judge dissenting, reversed and remanded for a new trial (67 Ill. App. 3d 945), and we granted the State’s petition for leave to appeal.

The issues before us grow out of the denial by the trial court of the defendant’s pretrial motion to suppress articles seized from him at the time of his arrest and of inculpatory statements made thereafter while in police custody on…