Possession of a Controlled Substance- Motion to Quash and Suppress Evidence Granted

The Chicago Police Department and Glenview Police Department joined forces in an effort to arrest my client with a large quantity of drugs. The officers recovered MDMA, LSD, Mushrooms, and over 300 grams of cannabis from his vehicle. The officers claimed that they saw my client place a large duffel bag in his backseat after leaving his home. They indicated he committed traffic offenses and stopped him in Glenview. 3 Chicago Police Officers and 2 Glenview Police Officers claimed that when they approached the vehicle they smelled cannabis in the car and my client admitted to them that he had a large quantity of marijuana in the back seat. They claimed that my client showed them where the cannabis was and excited his car. The prosecutor was offering prison time so I filed a motion to quash arrest and suppress evidence, claiming that the search of my client’s car was illegal. All 5 officers appeared at the hearing and testified to the same exact series of events. The officers did not realize that I had obtained a video and audio recording from one of the Glenview Police Officers dashboard cameras. The video showed that the Chicago Police Officer walked up to my client’s car and literally ripped him out of the vehicle immediately. The officer then went inside my client’s car without consent and searched for drugs. After the Judge saw the video, she stated that all the officers who had testified had lied. The Judge then suppressed all the evidence that was recovered and the State’s Attorney immediately dismissed the case.