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DONALD ELKINS, Defendant-Appellee." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Mr. JUSTICE RECHENMACHER\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nThe defendant, while an inmate of the Ogle County Jail, was arrested and charged with the unlawful possession of controlled substances. The trial court granted the defendant\u2019s motion to suppress physical evidence taken from in and around the defendant\u2019s jail bunk, and certain statements which had been made by the defendant. The State appeals.\nThe evidence adduced at the hearing on the defendant\u2019s suppression motion can be summarized as follows: On March 5, 1976, one of the defendant\u2019s cellmates told guards at the Ogle County Jail that the defendant had drugs, including marijuana, concealed in the cellblock. The informant arranged to see Sheriff Brooks, and told him about the drugs. After the informant was returned to his cell, Sheriff Brooks told Lieutenant Wilkinson, a member of his staff who had just come on duty, that he felt that there might be some drugs in the cells, and ordered him to conduct a \u201cshake-down\u201d of the jail. Sheriff Brooks did not mention the defendant or that the drugs were likely to be found in the defendant\u2019s cellblock, since he \u201cdidn\u2019t know how much was in any of the cells\u201d and so he \u201cjust told them to conduct a complete shake-down of the entire jail.\u201d Sheriff Brooks stated that his staff tries to hold a \u201cshake-down\u201d search once a week or \u201canytime\u201d that the correctional officer in charge feels that such a search should be conducted.\nLieutenant Wilkinson carried out Sheriff Brooks\u2019 instructions, searching all five cellblocks in turn. The defendant\u2019s cellblock was the fourth one to be searched. When Lieutenant Wilkinson entered the cellblock, he asked each person individually to identify his bunk. There were four inmates in the cellblock at the time of the search. When the defendant was asked which bunk was his he pointed to a particular bunk, which the officers then searched; the officers found a sock containing the alleged controlled substances in the bunk and three hand-rolled cigarettes on a shelf next to the bunk.\nThe defendant was taken to a conference room and advised of his rights. After acknowledging that he understood his rights, the defendant stated that he was \u201caware of\u201d the drugs, but that they were not his, and he was \u201cholding them for somebody else.\u201d At the \u201csuppression\u201d hearing, the State and defense stipulated that the search of the defendant\u2019s cell had been conducted without a warrant. The trial court then held that the authorities had had adequate time in which to obtain a warrant, and that the search had not been \u201cadministrative\u201d in nature, since it was a \u201csearch for evidence based on information from an informer.\u201d The court, therefore, ruled that the search had been unlawful and that any statements given by the defendant were the \u201cfruit\u201d of the unlawful search. On this basis, the court granted the defendant\u2019s suppression motion, both as to physical evidence and the statements by the defendant.\nWe believe that the trial court was in error. While \u201c[t]here is no iron curtain drawn between the Constitution and the prisons of this country,\u201d and imprisonment does not wholly strip a prisoner of his constitutional protections, \u201c[l]awful imprisonment necessarily makes unavailable many rights and privileges of the ordinary citizen \u00b0 \u00b0 (Wolff v. McDonnell (1974), 418 U.S. 539, 555-56, 41 L. Ed. 2d 935, 950, 94 S. Ct. 2963, 2974.) As the court noted in Lanza v. New York (1962), 370 U.S. 139, 143, 8 L. Ed. 2d 384, 388, 82 S. Ct. 1218, \u201c* * * it is obvious that a jail shares none of the attributes of privacy of a home, an automobile, an office, or a hotel room.\u201d Thus, although a prisoner may enjoy some residual protection under the Fourth Amendment, against unreasonable searches and seizures, \u201c[t]o hold that known cause comparable to that required for a search warrant in private life must precede such a [prison] search would be completely unrealistic.\u201d (Daughtery v. Harris (10th Cir. 1973), 476 F.2d 292, 294-95.) In the case at bar, the information given the sheriff indicating that the defendant was in possession of unlawful drugs, raised the possibility that drugs had been passed to other inmates as well. The presence of unlawful drugs in the jail posed an obvious threat to the administration and objectives of that institution, and the warrantless search of defendant\u2019s cellblock, as well as of the other cellblocks, was clearly not an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment. It would have been entirely reasonable and proper for the jail officers to have conducted the search questioned by defendant, either with or without prior information of the presence of contraband, for drugs, weapons or other things threatening to the security of the jail or its inhabitants. In these circumstances an inmate of a jail cannot assert a Fourth Amendment bar to a warrantless search.\nWhile the trial court, in holding that statements made by the defendant immediately prior to and after his arrest should be suppressed as the fruit of the search, did not reach the merits of the defendant\u2019s contention that the statements were obtained in violation of his Miranda rights, our holding that the warrantless search was not unlawful and that the court erred in suppressing the physical evidence makes it necessary for us to explore the defendant\u2019s contention that his Miranda rights were violated. (See People v. Roberson (1977), 46 Ill. App. 3d 750.) The defendant\u2019s specific assertion is that Miranda warnings should have been administered before the defendant was asked to identify his bunk, and that the subsequent statements in the conference room were the product of the \u201cinterrogation\u201d regarding the bunk. However, we do not believe that it was necessary for Lieutenant Wilkinson to administer Miranda warnings to the defendant prior to asking him to identify his bunk. This request was not an interrogation meant to elicit an incriminating admission from defendant but only intended to identify and locate the four inmates occupying the cell. (See People v. Morrissey (1977), 49 Ill. App. 3d 622, 627; People v. Turner (1971), 2 Ill. App. 3d 11, 15.) The request that the defendant identify his bunk was no different from the request made of every other prisoner in the cellblock. Thus, although the defendant was obviously in custody when Wilkinson asked him to identify his bunk, we do not believe that Miranda warnings were required prior to such a routine and preliminary inquiry, which was a normal incident of jail administration. Cf. People v. Hicks (1970), 44 Ill. 2d 550, cert. denied (1970), 400 U.S. 845, 27 L. Ed. 2d 81, 91 S. Ct. 90; People v. Dunn (1975), 31 Ill. App. 3d 854, cert. denied (1976), 426 U.S. 950, 49 L. Ed. 2d 1187, 96 S. Ct. 3171 (holding that no Miranda warnings were required prior to preliminary on-scene questioning).\nFor the foregoing reasons, the trial court\u2019s order granting the defendant\u2019s suppression motion is reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.\nReversed and remanded.\nGUILD and NASH, JJ., concur.", "type": "majority", "author": "Mr. JUSTICE RECHENMACHER" } ], "attorneys": [ "Peter J. Woods, State\u2019s Attorney, of Oregon (Phyllis J. Perko and Jan Tuckerman, both of State\u2019s Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of counsel), for the People.", "Mary Robinson and Mark J. Heyrman, both of State Appellate Defender\u2019s Office, of Elgin, for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DONALD ELKINS, Defendant-Appellee.\nSecond District\nNo. 77-169\nOpinion filed June 14, 1978.\nPeter J. Woods, State\u2019s Attorney, of Oregon (Phyllis J. Perko and Jan Tuckerman, both of State\u2019s Attorneys Appellate Service Commission, of counsel), for the People.\nMary Robinson and Mark J. Heyrman, both of State Appellate Defender\u2019s Office, of Elgin, for appellee." }, "file_name": "0883-01", "first_page_order": 905, "last_page_order": 908 }