# People v. James

> Illinois Supreme Court · December 22, 1994 · 163 Ill. 2d 302

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9861248

## Case

- **Full name:** The PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. DELORES JAMES, Appellant
- **Court:** Illinois Supreme Court
- **Decided:** December 22, 1994
- **Citations:** 163 Ill. 2d 302; 206 Ill. Dec. 190; 645 N.E.2d 195; 1994 Ill. LEXIS 173
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Heiple
- **Judges:** McMorrow, Heiple
- **Cited by:** 130 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that where officer "never testified that he believed that he had probable cause to search the car or the purse," and where "record offer[ed] only one reason," the driver's consent, for the officer's search of the vehicle, then "State must find refuge in [the 33 driver'…
- holding that a purse left behind in a vehicle has not been abandoned when a passenger gets out of the vehicle at the request or command of a police officer

## Opinion text

JUSTICE HEIPLE, dissenting:
I dissent for the reasons adequately expressed in the majority opinion of the appellate court which this court now reverses. 242 Ill. App. 3d 675 .

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