{ "id": 3110450, "name": "THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THOMAS ANNERINO, Defendant-Appellee", "name_abbreviation": "People v. Annerino", "decision_date": "1981-06-08", "docket_number": "No. 80-1890", "first_page": "240", "last_page": "242", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "97 Ill. App. 3d 240" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.", "id": 8837, "name": "Illinois Appellate Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 29, "name_long": "Illinois", "name": "Ill." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "410 N.E.2d 617", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "N.E.2d", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "88 Ill. App. 3d 387", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. App. 3d", "case_ids": [ 3175213 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-app-3d/88/0387-01" ] }, { "cite": "393 N.E.2d 1098", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "N.E.2d", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "75 Ill. App. 3d 259", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. App. 3d", "case_ids": [ 3273925 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-app-3d/75/0259-01" ] }, { "cite": "437 U.S. 385", "category": "reporters:federal", "reporter": "U.S.", "case_ids": [ 6180644 ], "weight": 3, "year": 1979, "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/us/437/0385-01" ] }, { "cite": "407 N.E.2d 543", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "N.E.2d", "year": 1978, "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "81 Ill. 2d 159", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. 2d", "case_ids": [ 5481541 ], "year": 1978, "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-2d/81/0159-01" ] }, { "cite": "436 U.S. 499", "category": "reporters:federal", "reporter": "U.S.", "case_ids": [ 1490288 ], "weight": 3, "year": 1980, "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/us/436/0499-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 369, "char_count": 5167, "ocr_confidence": 0.852, "pagerank": { "raw": 7.078785446368026e-08, "percentile": 0.4260835284219273 }, "sha256": "31aa8dfc44026dbb093c47cb2bd9dabfcb0f5a9255b945d340d1514d6ad8002f", "simhash": "1:b31e57d6aa5a18cd", "word_count": 854 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T15:36:18.348258+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THOMAS ANNERINO, Defendant-Appellee." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Mr. JUSTICE McGLOON\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nThe defendant was charged with possession and possession with intent to deliver more than 500 grams of marijuana. Defendant was also charged with several other offenses involving controlled substances. The State appeals from an order of the trial court sustaining the motion of defendant to suppress the marijuana. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 110A, par. 604(a)(1).) The sole issue presented for review is whether the trial court erred in suppressing the evidence.\nThe evidence adduced at the suppression hearing shows that on September 22, 1979, defendant came to the Oak Lawn police station to report that a person had been fatally shot in his house. Oak Lawn Police Chief John Haberkorn testified that he responded to defendant\u2019s call for assistance. Upon arriving at defendant\u2019s residence, the police secured the crime area. At this time Chief Haberkorn observed the victim lying in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor, and he also viewed a bullet hole in the baseboard of the kitchen wall. Chief Haberkorn stated that he and Oak Lawn Captain Frank Gilbert then proceeded to the crawl space which was located underneath the kitchen in order to obtain the projectile. The officers discovered several large plastic bags containing marijuana after they entered the crawl space through a small door in the lower level of the house. The projectile was recovered by the police officers in a heat duct located in the crawl space.\nThe State contends that the trial court erred in granting defendant\u2019s motion to suppress the marijuana found in the crawl space of his house, since defendant\u2019s actions indicated that he consented to the search and because the police officers were merely searching the premises for the victim\u2019s assailant when they observed the contraband in plain view. We disagree.\nIt is well established that a warrantless entry into private premises by law enforcement officials may be legal when there is a compelling need for official action and no time to secure a warrant. (Michigan v. Tyler (1978), 436 U.S. 499, 56 L. Ed. 2d 486, 98 S. Ct. 1942; see discussion in People v. Abney (1980), 81 Ill. 2d 159, 407 N.E.2d 543.) When the police come upon the scene of a homicide, they may make a prompt warrantless search of the area to determine whether there are other victims or suspects on the premises, and any items that are in plain view may be lawfully seized. Mincey v. Arizona (1978), 437 U.S. 385, 57 L. Ed. 2d 290, 98 S. Ct. 2408; People v. Lewis (1979), 75 Ill. App. 3d 259, 393 N.E.2d 1098.\nRecently, the Second District Appellate Court in People v. Faine (1980), 88 Ill. App. 3d 387, 410 N.E.2d 617, was presented with a similar situation as in the instant case. In Faine, the police were sent to investigate a shooting in the defendant\u2019s house. Upon arriving at the scene, they observed defendant kneeling over his wife who was lying on the floor. Defendant and his wife were subsequently transported from the crime area. After conducting a warrantless search of the. premises, the police found a handgun wrapped in a cloth behind defendant\u2019s kitchen stove. The court in Faine, relying on the principles articulated by the United States Supreme Court in Mincey v. Arizona, determined that the warrant-less search was not justified by the presence of exigent circumstances since there was no showing that the officers were looking for other victims or the killer; the defendant was not present at the crime scene; and there was no danger present that evidence would be lost or destroyed.\nHere, as in Faine, there was no indication that the officers were looking for other victims or the victims\u2019 assailant. In fact, contrary to the State\u2019s argument, Chief Haberkorn admitted that their presence in the crawl space was merely to recover the bullet fragment which was found inside the heat duct located in the crawl space. The record shows that the police had secured the premises so that no evidence would be lost, destroyed or concealed. Furthermore, there was no indication that a warrant could not have easily been obtained.\nThe State also maintains that defendant, by his actions, consented to the search inside his house. However, defendant never expressly consented to the search. Nor do we find that defendant consented to a warrantless search of his crawl space by requesting police assistance in removing the victim from his kitchen. Therefore, in the absence of consent or exigent circumstances, we must conclude that the warrantless search and seizure of evidence in the crawl space was violative of defendant\u2019s constitutional rights.\nAccordingly, the judgment of the circuit court of Cook County is affirmed.\nJudgment affirmed.\nGOLDBERG and O\u2019CONNOR, JJ., concur.", "type": "majority", "author": "Mr. JUSTICE McGLOON" } ], "attorneys": [ "Richard M. Daley, State\u2019s Attorney, of Chicago (Marcia B. Orr and Pamela L. Gray, Assistant State\u2019s Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.", "Blair I. Braverman, of Barnett, Ettinger, Glass, Berkson & Braverman, Ltd., of Oak Lawn, for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THOMAS ANNERINO, Defendant-Appellee.\nFirst District (1st Division)\nNo. 80-1890\nOpinion filed June 8, 1981.\nRichard M. Daley, State\u2019s Attorney, of Chicago (Marcia B. Orr and Pamela L. Gray, Assistant State\u2019s Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.\nBlair I. Braverman, of Barnett, Ettinger, Glass, Berkson & Braverman, Ltd., of Oak Lawn, for appellee." }, "file_name": "0240-01", "first_page_order": 262, "last_page_order": 264 }