People v. Purchase

PRESIDING JUSTICE STOUDER

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant, Donald Purchase, was charged with five counts of theft (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 38, par. 16—1(a)). The trial court thereafter granted the defendant’s motion to suppress all evidence seized during a search of his residence. The State appeals, arguing that the trial court erred in determining that the consents obtained from the defendant and his wife were not voluntarily given.

At the hearing on the motion to suppress, the defendant’s wife, Luanna Purchase, testified that around 9:30 a.m. on March 7, 1990, she was home…