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      "The People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Silvio Paul Taylor, Defendant-Appellee."
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        "text": "Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SMITH\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nThe State appeals from the quashing of a search warrant and the suppression of evidence obtained thereunder. The motion to quash questioned the legal sufficiency of the affidavit for search warrant. Accordingly, our focus is directed to that instrument.\nThe affidavit recited that complainant was a detective with the Mattoon Police Department and had participated in numerous investigations relating to the sale, use or possession of narcotic drugs; that he had received information from a reliable informant whose information in the past had led to arrests and convictions; that on a given date defendant was in possession of a black box-type container, the contents of which defendant represented was marijuana; that the complainant was told by the informer that defendant possessed such container in described premises and that the complainant believed that the container was still on the premises, again, based on information received from \u201csaid reliable informant\u201d.\nDefendant argues that the complaint for search warrant does not disclose the underlying circumstances from which the inform\u00e9r could conclude that defendant possessed marijuana, and that the issuing judge could not possibly have made an independent determination that the \u201cinformant\u2019s tip was founded in logic\u201d. On the other hand, the State argues that the information supplied is sufficient under the principles enunciated in People v. Mitchell, 45 Ill.2d 148, 258 N.E.2d 345.\nHearsay, of course, may be used to establish probable cause for a search warrant so long as there is a substantial basis for crediting the hearsay. (People v. Jackson, 22 Ill.2d 382, 176 N.E.2d 803.) In Aguilar v. Texas, 378 U.S. 108, 12 L.Ed.2d 723, 84 S.Ct. 1509, the Supreme Court enunciated the criteria upon which search warrants issued on the basis of hearsay supplied by an informer are to be judged:\n* 0 [T]he magistrate must be informed of some of the underlying circumstances from which the informant concluded that the narcotics were where he claimed they were, and some of the underlying circumstances from which the officer concluded that the informant, whose identity need not be disclosed, * * 0 was \u2018credible\u2019 or his information \u2018reliable\u2019.\u201d 378 U.S. at 114 \u2014 15, 12 L.Ed.2d at 729.\nIn our matter the complainant specifically stated that he had received information from a \u201creliable informant\u201d whose information in the past had led to arrests and convictions. Further, the complainant specifically related the \u201cunderlying circumstances\u201d from which the informer concluded that marijuana was on the premises occupied by defendant\u2014 that defendant was in possession of a container, that defendant represented to.the informer that its contents were marijuana and that such contents were observed by the informer and believed by him to be marijuana. In our opinion, the search warrant was based upon probable cause.\nWe should keep in wind that \u201cprobability, and not a prima facie showing, of criminal activity is the standard of probable cause, * * * that affidavits of probable cause are tested by much less vigorous standards than those governing the admissibility of evidence at the trial, * * * that in judging probable cause issuing magistrates are not to be confined by niggardly limitations or by restrictions on the use of their common sense, * * * and that their determination of probable cause should be paid great deference by reviewing courts. * * *\u201d (Citations omitted.) (Spinelli v. United States, 393 U.S. 410, 419, 21 L.Ed.2d 637, 645, 89 S.Ct. 584.) An important feature here is the representation by defendant that the contents of the container which the informer observed was marijuana. This is important for as Mr. Justice White observed in a concurring opinion in Spinelli, \u201cBut if, for example, the informer\u2019s hearsay comes from one of the actors in the crime in the nature of admission against interest, the affidavit giving this information should be held sufficient\u201d. (393 U.S. at 425, 21 L.Ed.2d at 649.) Accordingly, the quashing of tire search warrant and the resultant suppression of evidence was improper.\nAccordingly, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded with directions to vacate the order quashing the search warrant and suppressing the evidence obtained thereunder.\nReversed and remanded with directions.\nCRAVEN and SIMKINS, JJ., concur.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "L. Stanton Dotson, State\u2019s Attorney, of Charleston (Paul C. Komada, Assistant State\u2019s Attorney, of counsel), for the People.",
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    "head_matter": "The People of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Silvio Paul Taylor, Defendant-Appellee.\n(No. 11812;\nFourth District\nFebruary 27, 1974.\nL. Stanton Dotson, State\u2019s Attorney, of Charleston (Paul C. Komada, Assistant State\u2019s Attorney, of counsel), for the People.\nRyan & Heller, of Mattoon, for appellee."
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