Scott Neville, a Democrat, wrote in the majority opinion. The 4-2 ruling by the court, with Republican Justice Lisa Holder White abstaining, found that an Illinois State Police trooper conducted a ...

A recent bill proposed by the Illinois Senate Criminal Law Committee would eliminate the odor of cannabis as probable cause ...

(AP) — An odor of burnt marijuana doesn't justify a search of a car without a warrant in Illinois ... of a criminal offense,” Justice P. Scott Neville Jr. said in the 6-0 opinion.

The Trump administration filed to join a legal challenge to an Illinois law that requires many nonprofit groups to disclose ...

Justice advocacy groups, including the state's chapter of the ACLU, the Chicago Appleseed Center and the Chicago Council of Lawyers, echoed Neville's sentiments in a joint amicus brief. Illinois' high ...