Illinois Supreme Court· 5/19/2011

People v. Absher

Citations

950 N.E.2d 659
242 Ill. 2d 77
351 Ill. Dec. 163
2011 Ill. LEXIS 778

How courts have described this case

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holding that defendant’s agreement, as part of negotiated guilty plea, to submit to probationary searches at any time “constituted prospective consent” and valid waiver of Fourth Amendment privacy rights
holding defendant contractually agreed to intensive probation to avoid prison
“[W]e have repeatedly held that fully negotiated guilty pleas such as the one at bar are governed by principles of contract law.”
plea agreements are contracts, and principles of waiver apply equally to them
where a defendant “is serving a term of probation, the restrictions placed on upon his [or her] conduct due to the terms of [the] probation agreement results in his [or her] having a ‘significantly diminished’ expectation of privacy.”
“contract principles govern a fully negotiated guilty plea”

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Judges: Freeman

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