People v. Kepi

The defendant, Acib Kepi, was charged with four counts of murder (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 38, par. 9 — 1(a)), and he filed a motion to suppress a towel and a jacket seized by the police. The trial court sustained the motion to suppress the towel and denied the motion as to the jacket. The State appeals from the order to suppress the towel, and the defendant has filed a cross-appeal from the remainder of the order refusing to suppress the jacket.

At the hearing on the motion, Kenneth E. Kopesky, a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer, testified that on May 11, 1977, at 1:50 a.m., he and his…