People v. Thomas

In People v. Thomas, 62 Ill. 2d 375, 342 N.E.2d 383 (1975), the Supreme Court of Illinois quoted the same portion of Ventresca that we quoted above and concluded that "the principles there stated are valid and applicable here." Thomas, 62 Ill. 2d at 379, 342 N.E.2d at 385. Interestingly, the decision of the Third District Appellate Court on review in Thomas to the supreme court (which the supreme court affirmed) reached the same conclusion in even stronger language: "The complaint and affidavit were clearly sufficient to sustain the search warrant. To find otherwise in this case would be to apply a hypertechnical, rather than a commonsense, interpretation and would not resolve doubtful or marginal cases according to the preference to be accorded to warrants as mandated in Ventresca." People v. Thomas, 24 Ill. App. 3d 932, 935, 321 N.E.2d 696, 699 (1974).