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Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 213 (1983), is a Fourth Amendment case. [ 1] Gates overruled Aguilar v. Texas [ 2] and Spinelli v. United States, [ 3] thereby replacing the Aguilar–Spinelli test for probable cause with the "totality of the circumstances" test.
U.S. Const. amends. I, XIV. National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, 432 U.S. 43 (1977), arising out of what is sometimes referred to as the Skokie Affair, [ 1] was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court dealing with freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. This case is considered a "classic" free speech case in ...
1966–1982. 3+. Serial killer whose first murder in 1966 was of his sister-in-law in Joliet, Illinois. [ 38][ 39] John Wayne Gacy. Norwood Park. 1972–1978. 33-45. Serial killer and rapist, also known as the "Killer Clown", who killed at least 33 young men and boys.
Escobedo v. Illinois, 378 U.S. 478 (1964), is a United States Supreme Court case holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment. [1] The case was decided a year after the court had held in Gideon v. Wainwright that indigent criminal defendants have a right to be provided counsel at ...
The Illinois Appellate Court is the court of first appeal for civil and criminal cases rising in the Illinois circuit courts.. Three Illinois Appellate Court judges hear each case and the concurrence of two is necessary to render a decision. [6]
Illinois Supreme Court. Abraham Lincoln was counsel of record in approximately 175 cases before Illinois' highest court. The history website of the Illinois Supreme Court lists all of these cases that have official citations, beginning with Scammin vs Wine, 3 Ill. 456 (1840), through to State of Illinois v. Illinois Central Railroad Company, 27 ...
Corruption in Illinois has been a problem from the earliest history of the state. [1] Electoral fraud in Illinois pre-dates the territory's admission to the Union in 1818. [ 2 ] Illinois had the third most federal criminal convictions for public corruption between 1976 and 2012, behind New York and California .
IV. Illinois v. Caballes, 543 U.S. 405 (2005), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that the use of a drug-sniffing police dog during a routine traffic stop does not violate the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, even if the initial infraction is unrelated to drug offenses.