People v. Ouellette

This is a consolidated appeal from two separate narcotics cases in the Circuit Court of Kankakee County. Both cases raise precisely the same legal issue and were appeals initiated by the State of Illinois from the granting of each defendant’s motion to suppress evidence seized by police in executing search warrants seeking contraband narcotics upon premises occupied by each defendant.

Although each case is different from the other as to both the physical location and the time of the execution of the search warrants, the cases have a striking number of factual similarities. More importantly…