State v. Ward

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

LUM, J.

This is an appeal by defendants-appellants Michael Patrick Ward and Gilbert Madrid, who were convicted by a circuit court jury for carrying firearms on their persons without permits. They contend that the trial court erred in denying their pre-trial motions to suppress incriminating evidence collected by the police through a warrantless telescopic search. The substance of their contention is that the police, without probable cause, conducted a telescopic surveillance (search) of activities in their apartment from a distance from which such activities were not…