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Illinois Supreme Court· 12/3/1979

People v. Gabbard

Citations

  • 398 N.E.2d 574
  • 78 Ill. 2d 88
  • 34 Ill. Dec. 751
  • 1979 Ill. LEXIS 420

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • recognizing that Wong Sun and its progeny rejected a simple “but for” test
  • noting that “the State admits that [the defendant’s] handcuffing constituted an arrest, and we agree”
  • finding intervening event where defendant confronted with sketch of robbery suspect prepared prior to his arrest and acknowledged sketch resembled him
  • finding intervening event where defendant was confronted with sketch of robbery suspect prepared prior to his arrest and acknowledged sketch resembled him
  • showing defendant a sketch of the man identified as committing the crime was a sufficient intervening circumstance
  • finding intervening event where defendant confronted with sketch of robbery suspect prepared prior to his arrest and acknowledged sketch resembled him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Ward, Underwood, Clark, Ryan

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60 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

34 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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