Real Illinois cases where the stop was good and the case still died. Each one is rewritten from the officer's seat: what they saw, the timeline, the exact moment it broke, and what would have saved it. Defense attorneys study lost motions for a living. Now you do too.
Brownlee, Bunch, Cox, Paddy, Bass. Five cases, one failure: the ticket was done or should have been, and the officer kept the car. Minutes did not matter. Two minutes lost Brownlee. The fix is the timer and the habit of handing over the paper the second it is finished.
Redmond, Stribling, Paddy's drug corridor, Pulido's hidden compartment. Courts now say out loud that odor alone, nervousness alone, and travel between cities alone are not enough. The RS builder flags every one of these as weak for a reason.
Anthony's silent posture. Pulido's consent that did not cover the station. Brownlee's consent during a seizure. Consent is a recorded question and a recorded answer with a stated scope, given by someone who knows they can leave. Anything less is a motion you lose.
