Appellate Court of Illinois· 11/5/1992

People v. Harper

Citations

603 N.E.2d 115
237 Ill. App. 3d 202
177 Ill. Dec. 334
1992 Ill. App. LEXIS 1773

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concluding that search occurred when police officers ordered suspect to open his mouth, shined flashlights into his mouth, and ordered him to spit out the packet they observed
holding that officers engaged in a search when they shined flashlights in defendant’s mouth and told him to spit out a folded packet on his tongue
holding the facts failed to establish “an articulable suspicion that a crime had been committed” when an officer saw a man enter a “known dope house” and remain for less than a minute, without any knowledge “of what defendant did after he entered the building”
no reasonable suspicion where defendant was stopped after exiting “known dope house”
no reasonable suspicion where defendant was stopped after exiting \known dope house\
officer’s request for individual to open his mouth constitutes a search

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Judges: McLaren

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