# People v. Collins

> Illinois Supreme Court · February 22, 1985 · 106 Ill. 2d 237

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9745355

## Case

- **Full name:** The PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. ROGER COLLINS Et Al., Appellants
- **Court:** Illinois Supreme Court
- **Decided:** February 22, 1985
- **Citations:** 106 Ill. 2d 237; 87 Ill. Dec. 910; 478 N.E.2d 267; 1985 Ill. LEXIS 216
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Simon
- **Judges:** Ryan, Clark, Simon
- **Cited by:** 2,335 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Reversed on other grounds by Bracy v. Gramley, 520 U.S. 899 (1997).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9745355

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding no reasonable expectation of privacy in a garbage bag left on a second floor landing of an outside stairway because such area was an openly accessible common area of the apartment building

## Opinion text

JUSTICE SIMON, also dissenting:
I join Chief Justice Clark’s dissent. In addition, for the reasons set forth in my separate opinions in People v. Lewis (1981), 88 Ill. 2d 129, 179 (Simon, J., dissenting), in People v. Silagy (1984), 101 Ill. 2d 147, 184 (Simon, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part), and in People v. Albanese (1984), 104 Ill. 2d 504, 549 (Simon, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part), I believe that the Illinois death penalty statute is unconstitutional and that the death sentence in this case should be vacated.

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