People v. Zach

This is an appeal by the State pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 604(a)(1) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 110A, par. 604(a)(1)) from the order of the trial court in the Twelth Judicial Circuit, Will County, suppressing a statement made by defendant Steven Zach, pursuant to a pretrial motion to suppress two statements which defendant made to police. The trial court suppressed one of the two statements.

On appeal, the State contends that the trial court erred in suppressing defendant’s statement. Sergeant Watters of the Will County sheriff’s police testified at the hearing on January 10, 1978, that he…