Court Opinion

ID: 9731516
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 15:48:22.551473+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:18.980148
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE UNDERWOOD, specially concurring: I agree that the motion to suppress the heroin should be denied, but I am puzzled by the language and tone of the opinion, which seem to imply that the majority opinion in People v. Ouellette (1979), 78 Ill. 2d 511, did not impose a “knock and announce” requirement upon the law-enforcement officers of Illinois. If Ouellette did not do so, Mr. Justice Ward and I spent a considerable amount of time writing unnecessary dissenting opinions in that case. If enforcement of the criminal laws of this State must be burdened with a knock and announce rule, the “exigent circumstances” exception to that rule was clearly met here. MR. JUSTICE WARD joins in this special concurrence.