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Criminal Procedure Keyed to Ohlin
Lynumn v. Illinois
Citation:
372 U.S. 528 (1963)Facts
On January 17, 1959, three Chicago police officers arrested James Zeno for unlawful possession of narcotics. They took him a district police station. There they told him that if he would set somebody up for them, they would go light on him. He agreed to cooperate and telephoned the petitioner, telling her that he was coming over to her apartment. The officers and Zeno then went to the petitioner’s apartment house. Some time later, Zeno emerged from the petitioner’s third floor apartment with a package containing a substance later determined to be marijuana. The officers took the package and told Zeno to return to the petitioner’s apartment on the pretext that he had left his glasses there. When the petitioner walked out in response to Zeno’s call, the officers seized and placed her under arrest. Petitioner testified that she had sold the marijuana to Zeno. At trial, petitioner testified that she had not in fact sold any marijuana to Zeno.
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