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Defendant was tried as an adult and was convicted of murder by a jury. He was then sentenced to 35 years in the Department of Corrections. On appeal defendant contends that (1) the court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence, (2) he was not proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, (3) the State\u2019s closing argument was highly prejudicial and (4) the court erred in refusing to give his instruction on circumstantial evidence. We reverse and remand.\nThe victim, Calvin Bond, was shot to death at approximately 1:30 a.m. on September 20, 1980, near the Illinois Central railroad tracks at 84th Street in Chicago, Illinois. The police officers who investigated the incident testified that around 6 p.m. on September 20, they saw defendant at his residence and he went with them to an interview room at the police station. The officers testified that defendant was given his Miranda warnings and was then questioned regarding the homicide. The officers stated that defendant was not under arrest at this time. Defendant was at the station for approximately 3/2 hours. When defendant was asked where his parents were, he replied that he did not know where they could be reached. The officers made no further attempt to locate defendant\u2019s parents. One of the officers testified that defendant denied being involved in the shooting, and that defendant stated that around midnight he had argued with the victim regarding a stereo but he then left the victim and headed home. He heard two gunshots at that time and heard the victim yell something like, \u201cShoot the gun, this is 82nd Street ***.\u201d He did not see who fired the shots.\nThe police officers also testified that two days later, on September 22, they saw defendant at a laundromat around 3 p.m. Defendant returned to the police station with them. The officers did not attempt to notify defendant\u2019s parents that defendant was at the station. Around 9 p.m., after defendant was again informed of his Miranda rights, he gave the police a statement in which he said that the statement that he had made two days earlier was untrue. Rather than going home at midnight, he met the victim and Darryl Moody. The three of them walked toward the railroad tracks where Moody said that he had hidden some television sets. When defendant stopped to urinate, the other two continued walking. Defendant then heard several shots and heard the victim scream. Moody came running back, and defendant started running, too. When they separated, Moody handed defendant a gun and told him to hide it in a crack in the porch where defendant lived. Moody also told defendant that he had shot the victim because he had caused Moody to be arrested on a burglary charge. The police officers also stated that they accompanied defendant to the spot where he had stated that he had placed the gun, but no weapon was retrieved. All of the officers testified that defendant was not physically abused. Defendant left the station after approximately 10 hours.\nDefendant testified at the hearing on the motion to suppress. According to defendant, he was on his way home from a bowling alley when he was arrested by the police around 2 p.m. on September 20. He was kept at the station for approximately seven hours, during which time he was denied food and water, and he was handcuffed. He was not permitted to use the telephone, and no one informed him of his Miranda rights. Defendant further testified that he was beaten by one of the officers.\nIn regard to the events on September 22, defendant testified that he was at a laundromat washing his clothes when three officers told him to get in their car, and they took him to the police station. He remained there approximately 12 hours, until 4:30 a.m. He stated that he was allowed to make a phone call to the lady with whom he resided to tell her to get his clothes from the laundromat, but he was not permitted to tell her where he was. As on the 20th, he was denied physical comforts, he was handcuffed, and he was beaten. The police did not advise him of his Miranda rights. Defendant denied making a statement on the 20th, and he further testified that he gave the police a statement on the 22d because the police were beating him and they promised him that he could leave after he made a statement. He left the station with his mother, but he did not know who had contacted her.\nDefendant was subsequently arrested on December 3, 1980, after Moody\u2019s girlfriend, who had fled to Alabama following the shooting, made statements incriminating defendant.\nInitially, defendant contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress the statements that he made to the police. According to defendant, these statements should have been suppressed because they were the product of an illegal arrest, the police failed to administer Miranda warnings, the police physically abused him, and the police failed to notify his parents or other interested adult that he was in custody as required by section 3 \u2014 2(1) of the Juvenile Court Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 37, par. 703-2(1)).\nOn a motion to suppress a confession, the burden of going forward with the evidence and the burden of proving that the confession was voluntary is on the State. However, the voluntariness of the defendant\u2019s statements must be proved by a preponderance of the evidence rather than beyond all reasonable doubt. (See In re Bizzle (1976), 36 Ill. App. 3d 321, 325, 343 N.E.2d 633, 637; Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 114 \u2014 11(d).) In determining the voluntariness of the defendant\u2019s statements, the trial court should follow the totality of the circumstances approach. This approach mandates an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the interrogation. (Fare v. Michael C. (1979), 442 U.S. 707, 724-25, 61 L. Ed. 2d 197, 212, 99 S. Ct. 2560, 2571-72; People v. Simmons (1975), 60 Ill. 2d 173, 179, 326 N.E.2d 383, 386.) Thus, no single fact is dispositive, and Miranda warnings, by themselves, will not always purge the taint of an illegal arrest or confession. (See Brown v. Illinois (1975), 422 U.S. 590, 605, 45 L. Ed. 2d 416, 428, 95 S. Ct. 2254, 2262-63.) On appeal, the courts must use special care in scrutinizing the record where a juvenile is involved, since juveniles could be \u201ceasy victim[s] of the law.\u201d (Haley v. Ohio (1948), 332 U.S. 596, 599, 92 L. Ed. 224, 228, 68 S. Ct. 302, 303-04.) Here, we conclude that defendant\u2019s statements were not voluntarily made and should have been suppressed.\nThe State\u2019s testimony shows that on September 20, 1980, around 6 p.m., defendant, who was 15 years old at the time of the incident, was asked to accompany the police to the police station for questioning. While at the station for a period of at least 3V2 hours, defendant stated that although he had argued with the victim regarding a stereo around midnight, he had left the victim and was heading home when he heard two gunshots and heard .the victim yell. Defendant denied being involved in the shooting. When asked by the police where his parents were, defendant replied that he did not know where they could be reached. The police made no further efforts to locate defendant\u2019s parents.\nTwo days later, on September 22, 1980, around 3 p.m., defendant was again asked to accompany the police to the station for questioning. This time defendant gave the statement in which he said that he had been with Bond and Moody, that he had stopped to urinate, and that after he heard shots being fired, he and Moody fled. Around 10 p.m., defendant took the police to the place where he supposedly had put the gun Moody gave him, but no weapon was recovered. Although the officers who had questioned defendant testified that they had not attempted to locate defendant\u2019s parents, defendant\u2019s mother took defendant home from the police station in the early morning hours. One of the police officers testified that defendant was at the police station for at least 10 hours.\nBased on these facts, we believe that defendant was not lawfully in custody at the time he made the inculpatory statements which placed him at the scene of the crime. We believe that the situation here is similar to that in Dunaway v. New York (1979), 442 U.S. 200, 60 L. Ed. 2d 824, 99 S. Ct. 2248, where the court found that the police had violated a juvenile defendant\u2019s constitutional rights when, without probable cause to arrest, they took the defendant into custody, transported him to the police station, and detained him there for interrogation. In Dunaway, the court referred to the fact that the defendant was not briefly questioned where he was found, but was taken from a neighbor\u2019s home to the police station in a police car. He was placed in an interrogation room where he was questioned after being given his Miranda warnings. He was not informed that he was free to go. Furthermore, the police made it clear that the defendant would have been physically restrained if he had refused to accompany the officers or had tried to escape. 442 U.S. 200, 212, 60 L. Ed. 2d 824, 835-36, 99 S. Ct. 2248, 2256.\nThe circumstances here are analogous to those in Dunaway. Defendant was not questioned at all before being \u201casked\u201d to accompany the officers to the police station. The first such request was made of defendant when he was at or near the place where he was residing. The second request was made as defendant stood outside a laundromat where he was doing his laundry. Both requests resulted in defendant being placed in an interrogation room, read his Miranda rights, and then questioned for several hours. The Supreme Court has \u201cconsistently recognized [that] the coerciveness of the custodial setting is of heightened concern where *** a juvenile is under investigation.\u201d (Fare v. Michael C. (1979), 442 U.S. 707, 729, 61 L. Ed. 2d 197, 215, 99 S. Ct. 2560, 2574 (Marshall, J., dissenting).) Although the police officers testified that defendant was free to leave, this fact was never conveyed to defendant. Nor do we believe that defendant\u2019s statement that he \u201cvoluntarily\u201d accompanied the officers is controlling. The assistant State\u2019s Attorney inferentially admitted in his argument at the suppression hearing that defendant could not have left of his own volition. The assistant State\u2019s Attorney stated that the police \u201cactually did pick [defendant] up,\u201d and that \u201cthey did read him his Miranda warnings ***. Because they knew that he was going to be the target [of the investigation].\u201d When the court shortly thereafter asked, \u201cYou are not saying that [defendant] was there, he was there voluntarily, and therefore the Miranda rights were not required?\u201d the assistant State\u2019s Attorney replied, \u201cNo, Judge, he was picked up by the Police and brought in.\u201d Moreover, as in Dunaway, the circumstances here make it evident that the purpose behind the officers\u2019 actions, \u201c '*** both in design and in execution, was investigatory. The [officers] embarked upon this expedition for evidence in the hope that something might turn up.\u2019 \u201d (Dunaway v. New York (1979), 442 U.S. 200, 216, 60 L. Ed. 2d 824, 838, 99 S. Ct. 2248, 2258, quoting Brown v. Illinois (1975), 422 U.S. 590, 605, 45 L. Ed. 2d 416, 428, 95 S. Ct. 2254, 2262.) Also, here the assistant State\u2019s Attorney admitted at the suppression hearing that the police lacked probable cause to arrest defendant. Thus, it is clear that the police acted illegally when, without probable cause, they seized defendant and took him to the police station.\nThe State correctly points out, however, that the illegality of an arrest does not per se render an inculpatory statement inadmissible. (People v. Tankson (1980), 92 Ill. App. 3d 328, 331, 415 N.E.2d 1218, 1221.) We recognize that where a defendant\u2019s detention is found to be illegal, the question remains as to whether the connection between the unconstitutional police conduct and the incriminating statements was sufficiently attenuated so that the statements could be introduced at trial. (Dunaway v. New York (1979), 442 U.S. 200, 216, 60 L. Ed. 2d 824, 838, 99 S. Ct. 2248, 2258.) In Dunaway, regarding the fact that it was undisputed that the defendant had been given Miranda warnings, the court pointed out that \u201calthough a confession after proper Miranda warnings may be found \u2018voluntary\u2019 for purposes of the Fifth Amendment, this type of \u2018voluntariness\u2019 is merely a \u2018threshold requirement\u2019 for Fourth Amendment analysis.\u201d (442 U.S. 200, 217, 60 L. Ed. 2d 824, 839, 99 S. Ct. 2248, 2259.) Beyond this threshold, the test articulated in Brown v. Illinois (1975), 422 U.S. 590, 603-04, 45 L. Ed. 2d 416, 427, 95 S. Ct. 2254, 2261-62, to vindicate the distinct policies and interests of the fourth amendment must be applied. Under Brown, the factors to be considered include the temporal proximity of the arrest and the confession, the presence of intervening circumstances, and the purpose and flagrancy of the official misconduct. Applying the Brown test to the facts before it, the Dunaway court concluded that there were no intervening events to break the connection between the defendant\u2019s illegal detention and his confession. The court based its conclusion on the facts that the defendant was seized without probable cause in the hope that something might turn up and that he confessed without any intervening event of significance. A similar conclusion is mandated by the circumstances in the present case, and here, the illegal conduct occurred not once but twice.\nAccordingly, defendant\u2019s statements should have been suppressed on the basis that the State failed to prove that they were not the product of an illegal arrest. (See People v. Townes (1982), 91 Ill. 2d 32, 435 N.E.2d 103.) Otherwise, \u201c[t]o admit [defendant\u2019s statements] in such a case would allow \u2018law enforcement officers to violate the Fourth Amendment with impunity, safe in the knowledge that they could wash their hands in the \u201cprocedural safeguards\u201d of the Fifth.\u2019 \u201d Dunaway v. New York (1979), 442 U.S. 200, 219, 60 L. Ed. 2d 824, 840, 99 S. Ct. 2248, 2260, quoting Comment, 25 Emory L.J. 227, 238 (1976).\nAnother factor contributing to our decision that defendant\u2019s statements should have been suppressed is the failure of the police officers to make a reasonable attempt to notify defendant\u2019s parents that defendant was in custody. Section 3 \u2014 2(1) of the Juvenile Court Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 37, par.703 \u2014 2(1)) provides:\n\u201cA law enforcement officer who takes a minor into custody *** shall immediately make a reasonable attempt to notify the parent or other person legally responsible for the minor\u2019s care or the person with whom the minor resides that the minor has been taken into custody and where he is being held; and the officer shall without unnecessary delay take the minor to the nearest juvenile police officer designated for such purposes in the county of venue or shall surrender the minor to a juvenile police officer in the city or village where the offense is alleged to have been committed. ***\u201d\nWhile defendant urges that we should follow the lead of other jurisdictions and rule that any incriminating statements made by a juvenile who is in custody should be inadmissible at trial by virtue of section 3 \u2014 2(1) unless he has at least had an adequate opportunity to have the advice of a lawyer, parent, or person with whom he resides prior to making his statement, we are precluded from adopting defendant\u2019s position in view of the fact that the Illinois Supreme Court has made it clear that the voluntariness of a juvenile\u2019s confession will be determined by the totality of the circumstances. (See In re Stiff (1975), 32 Ill. App. 3d 971, 978, 336 N.E.2d 619, 625.) Moreover, in People v. Zepeda (1970), 47 Ill. 2d 23, 265 N.E.2d 647, the court stated that the Juvenile Court Act did not provide for sanctions where there was a failure to reasonably comply with section 3 \u2014 2(1). However, we do not believe that this means that the failure to comply with section 3 \u2014 2(1) is not an important consideration in determining whether a juvenile defendant\u2019s statements were voluntary under the totality of the circumstances.\nIn Zepeda, the court found that the juvenile defendant\u2019s statements had been voluntarily given and were obtained with due regard for the defendant\u2019s constitutional rights. There, the defendant made an admission establishing his legal accountability for the crime within 30 minutes of arriving at the station. The statements were reduced to a signed writing within another 35 minutes. Subsequently, a juvenile officer drove defendant, another youth and one of the arresting officers to the State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s office, where the defendant gave a second signed statement. The record showed that the juvenile officer was present when this statement was obtained, although it was not clear whether he had been present for the earlier statements.\nIn contrast to Zepeda, the defendant in the present case was illegally detained not once but twice. It is unclear at what point defendant made his statements during his lengthy detentions. Although the police officers knew that defendant was a juvenile, they made no effort to locate defendant\u2019s parents beyond asking defendant where they could be reached.\nWe can only conclude that the absence of an adult interested in defendant\u2019s welfare as envisioned by section 3 \u2014 2(1) contributed to the coercive circumstances surrounding defendant\u2019s interrogations. Although the trial court found that defendant was given Miranda warnings, there is scant evidence in the record to support the conclusion that defendant knowingly waived his rights under the fifth amendment. Defendant was only 15 years old at the time of his interrogation. There is no testimony regarding his intellectual capacity. He was questioned twice by the police at the police station for substantial periods of time. After he was given Miranda warnings, he was merely asked whether he understood them. He did not sign a waiver of rights form at either of the two interrogations, nor did he sign any written statements. Further, it is evident that at the time defendant was questioned, although he was the focus of the police investigation, the police lacked probable cause to arrest him.\nUnder the circumstances, the failure of the police officers to make any reasonable attempt to locate defendant\u2019s parents becomes a consequential fact. The police were attempting to coerce defendant into making incriminating statements, and their admitted failure to even attempt to notify an adult interested in defendant who could have ensured that defendant understood the extreme importance of the constitutional rights which he allegedly waived without hesitation underscores our conclusion that the State failed to prove that defendant\u2019s statements were voluntary under the totality of the circumstances. Accordingly, the trial court erred in denying defendant\u2019s motion to suppress defendant\u2019s statements at the police station, and defendant\u2019s conviction must therefore be reversed.\nIn view of our decision that defendant is entitled to a new trial, the only other issue we need to address is whether the evidence, if believed, would have been sufficient to prove defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Defendant points out that the heart of the State\u2019s case was the testimony of Valerie Dickerson, who was 14 years old at the time of trial. The gist of her testimony was at the time of the occurrence, she was living with the Moody family. She was in love with Moody, and defendant and the victim were her friends. She overheard Moody and defendant talking about killing Bond. Later, she saw defendant, Moody and Bond at the corner of 83d and Ellis, and she saw defendant put a gun to Bond\u2019s head. She then saw Bond run up the stairs, and Moody and defendant, who both had guns, were chasing him. She heard four or five gunshots as she returned to Moody\u2019s house. Around 10:30 a.m., she saw defendant talking to a drunken derelict, and she later overheard defendant tell Moody that he had sold his gun to a wino. Later that day she flew to Alabama to live with her grandmother because she was afraid that Moody would kill her.\nDefendant characterizes Dickerson\u2019s testimony as that of a \u201cmixed up, lovesick child,\u201d and concludes that \u201c[t]o predicate a conviction *** on this child\u2019s imaginings is simply beyond the pale.\u201d However, Dickerson\u2019s youth and bias were made clear to the jury, whose duty it was to determine her credibility. We believe that Dickerson\u2019s testimony, in addition to the other evidence, was sufficient for a jury to conclude that defendant was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. This does not mean that we are making a finding as to defendant\u2019s guilt or innocence which would be binding on retrial, but rather, our consideration of the sufficiency of the evidence protects defendant\u2019s constitutional right against double jeopardy as mandated by People v. Taylor (1979), 76 Ill. 2d 289, 309, 391 N.E.2d 366, 375. See People v. Clark (1980), 84 Ill. App. 3d 637, 642, 405 N.E.2d 1192, 1195-96.\nAccordingly, the judgment is reversed and the case is remanded for a new trial.\nReversed and remanded.\nMcNAMARA and WHITE, JJ., concur.\nSee, e.g., Lewis v. State (1972), 259 Ind. 431, 288 N.E.2d 138; In re Dino (La. 1978), 359 So. 2d 586; Commonwealth v. Smith (1977), 472 Pa. 492, 372 A.2d 797.", "type": "majority", "author": "PRESIDING JUSTICE RIZZI" } ], "attorneys": [ "Sam Adam, of Chicago, for appellant.", "Richard M. Daley, State\u2019s Attorney, of Chicago (Michael E. Shabat, Marie Quinlivan, and Stephen Erhard Eberhardt, Assistant State\u2019s Attorneys, of counsel), for the People." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ALPHONSO TRAVIS, Defendant-Appellant.\nFirst District (3d Division)\nNos. 82\u20141070, 82\u20141261 cons.\nOpinion filed March 21, 1984.\nSam Adam, of Chicago, for appellant.\nRichard M. Daley, State\u2019s Attorney, of Chicago (Michael E. Shabat, Marie Quinlivan, and Stephen Erhard Eberhardt, Assistant State\u2019s Attorneys, of counsel), for the People." }, "file_name": "0671-01", "first_page_order": 693, "last_page_order": 701 }