Chicago police claim they saw a car being driven by an unknown person which lacked a front license plate. To investigate this very serious crime three Chicago police officers from a special unit began following the car for several blocks. They next saw it parked and my client, S. Briggs, legally walking on a Chicago sidewalk. Nonetheless, they stopped him and asked him for his drivers license and car insurance. When he didn’t produce either yet spontaneously said to the police, “I have perc in my pocket”. The police arrested him and determined they would have to tow the car. In court questioning revealed that the officers had not seen my client in the car, yet concluded he had been driving the car. The police further concluded they needed to tow the car. No one had complained about the car, it wasn’t obstructing anything and it was legally parked. Yet, under the pretext of towing the car, the police carried out an inventory search and claim they found the clip of a gun and a gun….in plain sight!. The Judge acknowledged there was no reason to tow the car, and thus no reason to arrest my client. His case was thrown out, but not before he spent a few weeks in jail and was on house arrest for months.
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