Illinois v. McArthur

McArthur's estranged wife, after retrieving belongings from their trailer with police escort, told Chief Love that her husband Charles (defendant) had marijuana hidden under the couch; when Love asked Charles for consent to search and Charles refused, Love sent an officer to obtain a warrant and told Charles he could not reenter the trailer unaccompanied, though Love let him go in briefly, under supervision, to get cigarettes and make a phone call. Roughly two hours later, officers returned with a warrant and found marijuana and a pipe under the couch; the trial court suppressed the evidence as fruit of an unlawful seizure, and the Illinois appellate courts affirmed before the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari.