People v. McCauley

645 N.E.2d 923, 163 Ill. 2d 414, 206 Ill. Dec. 671, 63 U.S.L.W. 2476, 1994 Ill. LEXIS 175

• Court: Illinois Supreme Court
• Decided: December 22, 1994
• Docket: 73800
• Status: Published

Opinions

JUSTICE FREEMAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendant, Aubrey McCauley, was indicted for first degree murder (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 38, par. 9 — 1). Following a pretrial hearing, the trial court suppressed evidence of a lineup identification of defendant and any statements he had made after an attorney, retained by his family, was present at the police station, unsuccessfully requesting to consult with him. The State took an interlocutory appeal, and the appellate court affirmed (228 Ill. App. 3d 893). We granted the State’s petition for leave to appeal (134 Ill. 2d R. 315). Several amici curiae, including the Chicago Council of Lawyers, the MacArthur Justice Center, the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, the Ad Hoc Committee to Support the Illinois Bill of Rights, Illinois Attorneys for Criminal Justice and various public defender agencies and associations have filed briefs in support of defendant. We now affirm in part and reverse in part for reasons which follow.

The following evidence was presented at the pretrial hearing. Detective Robert Kocan testified that on November 20, 1988, at about 5:30 p.m., Chicago police officers brought defendant to a third-floor interview room in the Area 3 Violent Crimes section of the Chicago police station located at 39th and California Streets. Defendant was brought to the station by police in connection with a shooting death which had occurred the previous day. At around 6 p.m., Detectives Kocan and Thomas Byron began interviewing defendant after first advising him of his Miranda rights. Defendant did not ask for a lawyer or say that his family was obtaining one for him. He responded to the detectives’ questioning by giving an alibi statement. Kocan and Byron then notified Sergeant Fred Bonke, their supervisor, who was in his third-floor office, that they were leaving the station to interview witnesses in connection with defendant’s statement. The detectives left defendant in custody in the interview room and left the station between 6 and 6:30 p.m.

Attorney William O. Walters testified that, shortly before 7 p.m. on that same evening, he received a telephone call from members of defendant’s family. Walters immediately telephoned a police station located at 61st and Racine Streets as well as the Area 3 police station to learn where defendant was being held. Police officers, answering the telephone at each station, told Walters that defendant was not present there. At 7 p.m., Walters proceeded to the 61st Street station and was again told by an unidentified police officer that defendant was not present and that Walters should perhaps call the Area 3 station. At about 7:30 p.m., Walters telephoned Area 3 and was told by another unidentified officer that defendant was also not there. Walters, nonetheless, proceeded to the Area 3 station, spoke to the desk sergeant and asked to speak with defendant. The desk sergeant telephoned upstairs to the third floor and advised Walters that an officer would come downstairs to speak with him. According to Walters, the time was 7:40 p.m.

Sergeant Bonke came downstairs, shortly. Walters identified himself as defendant’s attorney and asked to speak with defendant. According to Walters, Bonke told him that he could not speak with defendant and refused as well to tell defendant that Walters was present. Bonke told Walters that defendant had not asked to see a lawyer. Bonke and Walters then disagreed as to whether defendant’s constitutional rights were being violated by the denial of access. Walters also asked Bonke whether defendant had been arrested. Bonke responded that defendant was voluntarily at the station and was not the target of the investigation. Bonke said that he would call Walters if defendant became the target. Walters testified that this conversation occurred at 7:50 p.m. He remained at the police station for about 10 more minutes, but left at 8 p.m. when it appeared that police would do nothing more.

Bonke testified that he was called downstairs from his third-floor office sometime after 7 p.m. According to Bonke, he conversed with Walters and advised him that defendant had not been charged and that, to Bonke’s knowledge, defendant had left the station with the two detectives and that there probably would be a lineup. Bonke denied telling Walters that he could not speak with defendant and denied that Walters asked him to tell defendant that Walters was present. Bonke could not say that he actually knew the detectives were interviewing defendant before they left the station because he was not closely involved. Bonke, however, knew that defendant was a suspect. Bonke also claimed that he had not seen defendant, nor did he know in which interview room he was being held.

Sometime between 8 and 8:15 p.m., Detectives Kocan and Byron returned to the Area 3 station. No one told them that Walters had been at the station. After being unable to locate alibi witnesses, the detectives told defendant that his alibi did not "check out.” They prepared for defendant to participate in a lineup. At around 10 p.xn., defendant was placed in a lineup and a witness identified him. At about 11 p.m., the detectives and an assistant State’s Attorney interviewed defendant, and he responded by repeating his earlier alibi statement. At about 1 a.m., Kocan was successful in locating defendant’s alibi witnesses, who did not support him. A short time later, an assistant State’s Attorney approved charges against defendant.

The trial court found that Walters was credible and that Bonke was not. The trial court suppressed evidence of the lineup identification of defendant and any statements he made after Walters was prevented from conferring with him.

On review, the appellate court affirmed the suppression of defendant’s statement and lineup identification on the basis that police violated defendant’s right against self-incrimination under article I, section 10, of the Illinois Constitution (Ill. Const. 1970, art. I, § 10).

ISSUES

The issues present in this appeal are whether the trial court properly suppressed defendant’s (a) statement and (b) lineup identification as resulting from a violation of either Federal or State constitutional protections where police denied a retained attorney access to his defendant-client and failed to inform the defendant-client that the attorney was present and available, seeking to consult with him.

Suppression of Statement

The State argues that where a custodial suspect is unaware that an attorney has been retained to represent him, a valid waiver of the right to counsel may be found under both the fifth amendment of the Federal Constitution and section 10 of article I of the Illinois Constitution, despite that police do not inform the suspect that the attorney is present and available, seeking to consult with him. The State argues that this court’s interpretation of our State constitutional right to counsel under section 10 must be guided by Moran v. Burbine (1986), 475 U.S. 412, 89 L. Ed. 2d 410, 106 S. Ct. 1135. The State urges that we reverse the trial court’s order suppressing defendant’s statement, on the basis of Burbine and People v. Griggs (1992), 152 Ill. 2d 1.

Defendant responds that where police have failed to inform a custodial suspect that his attorney is present and available, seeking to consult with him, there cannot have been a valid waiver of the right to counsel found under section 10, and the suspect’s subsequent statements are properly suppressed. Defendant contends that Burbine represents a regressive interpretation of fifth amendment protections, which this court should not rely on in interpreting section 10. According to defendant, People v. Smith (1982), 93 Ill. 2d 179, and Griggs, 152 Ill. 2d 1, reject the Federal constitutional analysis developed in Burbine and, thus, necessarily speak for our State constitutional guarantees. Defendant further contends that the police conduct violated his State constitutional rights of due process.

A defendant’s right against self-incrimination is guaranteed by the fifth and fourteenth amendments of the United States Constitution and by article I, section 10, of the Illinois Constitution of 1970. This right includes the right to an attorney. A defendant may waive these rights provided that the waiver is voluntary, knowing and intelligent. (People v. Evans (1988), 125 Ill. 2d 50, 74.) In determining whether a defendant knowingly and intelligently waived his right to an attorney, a court must consider the totality of the circumstances, including the characteristics of the defendant and the details of the interrogation, without one circumstance or factor controlling. (People v. Reid (1990), 136 Ill. 2d 27, 54-55.) The State bears the burden of proving, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the defendant made a knowing, intelligent and voluntary waiver of his or her rights. See Reid, 136 Ill. 2d at 51.

In Moran v. Burbine, the United States Supreme Court decided the validity of a custodial suspect’s waiver of the fifth amendment right to counsel under circumstances similar to those presented here. The issue presented was whether a custodial suspect’s waiver was valid where either "police misinformed an inquiring attorney about their plans concerning the suspect or because they failed to inform the suspect of the attorney’s efforts to reach him.” (Burbine, 475 U.S. at 420, 89 L. Ed. 2d at 420, 106 S. Ct. at 1140.) In Burbine, an attorney retained by the defendant’s sister telephoned the police station where the defendant was being held and stated that she would act as the defendant’s counsel in the event police decided to question him. Police misrepresented to the attorney that the defendant would not be questioned. Applying traditional waiver principles, the Court held that neither deliberate deception of a custodial suspect’s attorney by police nor their failure to inform him of his attorney’s efforts to contact him was conduct relevant to the validity of his waiver of fifth amendment rights. The Court reasoned that a custodial suspect’s capacity to comprehend and knowingly relinquish constitutional rights could "surely” not be affected by events of which he was unaware. (Burbine, 475 U.S. at 422, 89 L. Ed. 2d at 421, 106 S. Ct. at 1141.) While the Court conceded that the withheld information would have likely affected the defendant’s decision to waive his constitutional rights, it was not information which was essential to his "comprehension” of those rights. Burbine, 475 U.S. at 422, 89 L. Ed. 2d at 421, 106 S. a. at 1141.

The Court further expressed a belief that the level of police culpability in withholding information from custodial suspects was irrelevant to the question of a knowing waiver. ”[S]uch conduct is only relevant to the constitutional validity of waiver if it deprives a defendant of knowledge essential to his ability to understand the nature of his rights and the consequences of abandoning them.” (Emphasis added.) Burbine, 475 U.S. at 423, 89 L. Ed. 2d at 422, 106 S. Ct. at 1142.

Thus, under Burbine, in determining the validity of a custodial suspect’s waiver of the fifth amendment right to counsel, the relevant and narrow inquiry is whether his ability to understand or comprehend his rights has been compromised by the lack of information or the police conduct in withholding that information. Because very few, if any, forms of withheld information, police conduct, or outside events can conceivably compromise a custodial suspect’s ability to understand or comprehend, Burbine necessarily decided, for purposes of waiver under Federal constitutional law, any question concerning the level of police culpability, the manner in which the attorney was retained, or the suspect’s awareness of that fact.

Burbine is controlling here in terms of any Federal constitutional basis for suppressing defendant’s statements. Defendant’s waiver of the right to counsel was therefore valid and suppression of defendant’s statements was insupportable on fifth amendment grounds.

The day is long past in Illinois, however, where attorneys must shout legal advice to their clients, held in custody, through the jailhouse door. In this case, we determine that our State constitutional guarantees afforded defendant a greater degree of protection. Our State constitutional guarantees simply do not permit police to delude custodial suspects, exposed to interrogation, into falsely believing they are without immediately available legal counsel and to also prevent that counsel from accessing and assisting their clients during the interrogation. (See Ill. Const. 1970, art. I, §§ 2, 10.) It is apparent that when police are allowed to withhold information from custodial suspects that their attorneys are present and immediately available to offer assistance, enormous pressure builds upon the police to secure statements from those suspects before they either exercise their right to an attorney or somehow learn of their attorneys’ presence. Further, by preventing those attorneys from accessing and assisting their clients, police improperly interfere with the suspects’ right to their attorneys’ presence as well as the attorney-client relationship, itself. The incommunicado interrogation and surrounding coercive environment likely to result from this objectionable practice is exactly the sort of scenario previously condemned by the United States Supreme Court in Escobedo and Miranda. See Miranda v. Arizona (1966), 384 U.S. 436, 457, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694, 714, 86 S. Ct. 1602, 1619 ("[t]his atmosphere carries its own badge of intimidation”); Escobedo v. Illinois (1964), 378 U.S. 478, 487, 12 L. Ed. 2d 977, 984, 84 S. Ct. 1758, 1763 ("it 'would be highly incongruous if our system of justice permitted the district attorney, the lawyer representing the State, to extract a confession from the accused while his own lawyer, seeking to speak with him, was kept from him by the police’ ”).

Three decisions inform our waiver analysis, People v. Smith (1982), 93 Ill. 2d 179, People v. Holland (1987), 121 Ill. 2d 136, and People v. Griggs (1992), 152 Ill. 2d 1. These decisions, along with the 1970 Constitutional Convention proceedings, demonstrate that requirements under our State constitutional guarantee (Ill. Const. 1970, art. I, § 10) differ substantially from the Federal and support suppression of defendant’s statements under the circumstances presented here. Regardless of the United States Supreme Court’s current views on waiver of the right to counsel under the Federal Constitution, the law in Illinois remains that ’’when police, prior to or during custodial interrogation, refuse an attorney appointed or retained to assist a suspect access to the suspect, there can be no knowing waiver of the right to counsel if the suspect has not been informed that the attorney was present and seeking to consult with him.” Smith, 93 Ill. 2d at 189.

We also reject the notion that little regard should be accorded to defendant’s due process claim. Illinois courts have long recognized that the State due process guarantee (Ill. Const. 1970, art. I, § 2) is implicated whenever the State engages in conduct towards its citizens deemed oppressive, arbitrary or unreasonable. (See G. Braden & R. Cohn, The Illinois Constitution: An Annotated and Comparative Analysis 11 (1969) (commenting on historical development of Illinois constitutional due process concepts); see also People v. Lewis (1952), 413 Ill. 116, 122 (failure of authorities to provide counsel, under the circumstances, violated due process under Illinois constitution); People v. Price (1962), 24 Ill. 2d 46 (deliberate denial of counsel, failure to inform of right to counsel, and mental compulsion rendered confession involuntary and violated State due process guarantee).) The United States Supreme Court, in Burbine, recognized that a defendant’s Federal due process rights might even be violated in instances where police conduct is sufficiently egregious. (See Burbine, 475 U.S. at 432, 89 L. Ed. 2d at 428, 106 S. Ct. at 1147 (finding that police deception more egregious than falsely telling a nonpresent, telephoning defendant’s lawyer that the defendant faced no imminent interrogation could rise to level of Federal due process violation).) Contrary to the view expressed by the State, we believe defendant sufficiently asserted a due process claim of error by arguing that the police should have allowed attorney Walters to consult with him. We further believe that the police conduct here violated State constitutional due process.

We address first the validity of defendant’s waiver. It is unquestionable that State courts have the authority to interpret their respective constitutional provisions more broadly than United States Supreme Court interpretations of similar Federal constitutional provisions. (See Oregon v. Hass (1975), 420 U.S. 714, 719, 43 L. Ed. 2d 570, 575-76, 95 S. Ct. 1215, 1219.) The United States Supreme Court expressly recognized that its Burbine decision was at odds with decisions by the majority of State courts, including Smith, as well as the policy recommendations of the American Bar Association. (Burbine, 475 U.S. at 427-28, 89 L. Ed. 2d at 425, 106 S. Ct. at 1144.) The Court consequently stated, "Nothing we say today disables the States from adopting different requirements for the conduct of [their] employees and officials as a matter of state law.” (Emphasis added.) Burbine, 475 U.S. at 427-28, 89 L. Ed. 2d at 425, 106 S. Ct. at 1144.

A close review of Smith, Holland and Griggs reveals that Illinois accepted this invitation and developed different requirements which are supported under our State constitution and its laws.

Well before the Supreme Court decided Burbine, this court, in Smith, addressed the issue of whether a custodial suspect’s statements were properly suppressed as violative of the right to counsel during custodial interrogation. (See Smith, 93 Ill. 2d 179.) In Smith, police told an associate of counsel retained by the defendant that she could not see the defendant because he was undergoing withdrawal from drugs. In deciding whether the defendant’s waiver of the fifth amendment right to counsel was knowing and intelligent, Smith relied extensively not on Federal precedent, but on a sister State’s interpretation of State constitutional law. (See State v. Haynes (1979), 288 Or. 59, 602 P.2d 272.) In Haynes, the police prevented an attorney retained by the custodial suspect’s wife from conferring with him. The Oregon Supreme Court, as a result, adopted a rule that where police " 'have failed to admit counsel to a person in custody or to inform the person of the attorney’s efforts to reach him, they cannot thereafter rely on defendant’s "waiver” for the use of his subsequent uncounseled statements or resulting evidence against him.’ ” (See Smith, 93 Ill. 2d at 187-88, quoting Haynes, 288 Or. at 72-74, 602 P.2d at 278-79.) Smith found persuasive the Oregon Supreme Court’s reasoning that under State law police possessed no authority to prevent or delay communication between an arrested person and his retained lawyer, and also that a custodial suspect’s decision to waive counsel’s assistance was likely to be affected by the withheld information. Smith also found persuasive at least one other State-law decision which reached a similar conclusion under its own State constitution. See State v. Matthews (La. 1982), 408 So. 2d 1274; Smith, 93 Ill. 2d at 188 (citing cases).

Smith’s analysis also relied to a more limited extent on previous statements by the United States Supreme Court indicating that police prevention of a custodial suspect’s attorney from consulting with him, under certain circumstances, constituted a violation of the sixth amendment right to counsel. Smith, 93 Ill. 2d at 188-89, quoting Miranda v. Arizona (1966), 384 U.S. 436, 465 n.35, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694, 718 n.35, 86 S. Ct. 1602, 1623 n.35 (referring to Escobedo v. Illinois (1964), 378 U.S. 478, 12 L. Ed. 2d 977, 84 S. Ct. 1758); see also Holland, 121 Ill. 2d at 167-68 (Clark, C.J., specially concurring) (providing historical background to State-law decisions which are at odds with Burbine).

This court held in Smith, relying primarily on State authorities:

"[W]hen police, prior to or during custodial interrogation, refuse an attorney appointed or retained to assist a suspect access to the suspect, there can be no knowing waiver of the right to counsel if the suspect has not been informed that the attorney was present and seeking to consult with him.” Smith, 93 Ill. 2d at 189.

Because of the scope of its holding, Burbine, however, necessarily overruled Smith sub silentio as grounded in the fifth amendment and, therefore, Federal constitutional law. Recall that Burbine essentially holds that unless a custodial suspect’s "capacity” or "ability” to "comprehe[nd]” his abstract fifth amendment right to an attorney is affected, no form of police conduct towards the suspect’s attorney, personally retained or otherwise, present or otherwise, or the failure of the police to inform the suspect of the attorney’s efforts to reach him can invalidate the suspect’s waiver of those rights. (See Burbine, 475 U.S. at 422, 423, 89 L. Ed. 2d at 421, 422, 106 S. Ct. at 1141, 1142.) Burbine conceded that while such conduct or information, if known by the suspect, might affect the suspect’s "decision” to waive his rights, this was not "knowledge” essential to his "ability” to "understand” the "nature” of his rights. (See Burbine, 475 U.S. at 423, 89 L. Ed. 2d at 422, 106 S. Ct. at 1142.) Burbine clearly conflicts with Smith, as standing on Federal law, in terms of the relevance both of police conduct and of information that retained counsel is available.

Moreover, while Burbine may be factually distinguishable from Smith in several respects, those distinctions carry absolutely no legal significance for purposes of deciding a knowing waiver under the fifth amendment. (In Burbine, the defendant was unaware of counsel’s retention and counsel did not request access to the defendant, nor was counsel ever present at the police station. In Smith, the defendant retained an attorney whose associate was present at the police station and requested access to the defendant, but was denied.) Burbine makes clear that, under the Federal Constitution, nothing the police do or no information a suspect has or is deprived of can be relevant unless it affects the suspect’s "ability” or "capacity” to comprehend or understand the nature of his rights. A distinction based on a suspect’s knowledge of whether he personally retained an attorney or knew an attorney was retained, or whether the attorney was on the telephone or at the door of the interrogation room asking to consult with the suspect, simply has no basis under Federal law.

In response to the Supreme Court’s express invitation to the States to adopt different requirements as a matter of State law (Burbine, 475 U.S. at 427-28, 89 L. Ed. 2d at 425, 106 S. Ct. at 1144), State courts uncomfortable with Burbine’s reasoning rejected it and formulated requirements resting on State constitutional grounds. State v. Stoddard (1988), 206 Conn. 157, 537 A.2d 446; Bryon v. State (Del. 1990), 571 A.2d 170; Haliburton v. State (Fla. 1987), 514 So. 2d 1088; People v. Wright (1992), 441 Mich. 140, 490 N.W.2d 351; State v. Reed (1993), 133 N.J. 237, 627 A.2d 630.

In Holland, the defendant requested that this court follow Smith, rather than Burbine, to decide a claimed violation under article I, section 10, of the Illinois Constitution. In deciding the State constitutional claim, the court declined to apply Smith, finding that Smith and Burbine were factually distinguishable, but that the facts of Holland were consistent with those of Burbine. The court relied on two points: as in Burbine, relatives had hired the attorney so that the defendant was unaware that the attorney had been retained; and, as in Burbine, the attorney had simply telephoned police, asking to be contacted if the defendant was questioned. The Holland court found Smith distinguishable because the defendant there had personally retained the attorney, and the attorney’s associate had been present at the jailhouse. The Holland court held that the defendant’s waiver was valid, as in Burbine, on the basis that the case factually tracked Burbine, more so than Smith. In Griggs, this court would later state that the facts of Holland were distinguishable from those of Smith because, unlike Smith, there had been no "wrongful denial of attorney access and no reason to apply the rule of Smith to the facts presented in Holland.” Griggs, 152 Ill. 2d at 24.

Parenthetically, Holland’s factual reliance on Burbine is problematic. Burbine holds that a knowing waiver of the right to counsel only implicates a suspect’s abilities and capacities to understand the nature of his rights; information affecting a suspect’s decision to waive those rights is irrelevant. Given such a broad, conceptually based holding, Burbine’s application to a given case cannot depend on factual variables such as the manner or the suspect’s awareness of the attorney’s retention, the attorney’s mode of communicating with police, or whether police denied him access to the suspect. The problem with Holland is that it adopts Burbine’s conclusion (the waiver was knowing and therefore valid) based simply on a finding that certain legally insignificant facts in Burbine were similar. The full import of Burbine’s holding was apparently not appreciated or considered by Holland. Simply put, the fifth amendment holding in Burbine is much broader than its facts, and Holland, seemingly, did not recognize this. See Burbine, 475 U.S. at 413-14, 89 L. Ed. 2d at 416, 106 S. Ct. at 1136-37.

Returning to the subject of legal grounds, it is significant that this court did not overrule Smith. This fact is significant because, after the Burbine decision, there is no basis on which Smith can stand as a Federal law decisión. In deciding the defendant’s article I, section 10, claim, Holland merely distinguished Smith on its facts, thus confirming its continued viability and standing on State-law grounds. It is also significant that the Holland court expressed no unwillingness to apply Smith, under article I, section 10, to instances where an attorney was denied access to his client. (Cf. Holland, 121 Ill. 2d at 169, 172 (Clark, C.J., specially concurring) (noting that the majority’s "attempt to distinguish Smith preserves for later consideration the issue of whether our State Constitution grants a broader privilege against self-incrimination in cases where the attorney is actually present”).) Clearly, considering this court’s refusal to overrule Smith as well as the Supreme Court’s invitation to the States, Smith’s rule was intended to be preserved as an appropriate State-law requirement under our own constitution. Cf. Griggs, 152 Ill. 2d at 37 (Miller, C.J., dissenting) (describing Smith as being "preserved and narrowed” by Holland); Bryon v. State (Del. 1990), 571 A.2d 170 (relying on Weber v. State (Del. 1983), 457 A.2d 674, a pre-Burbine decision, as grounded in that State’s constitution); Roeder v. State (Tex. App. 1988), 768 S.W.2d 745 (relying on Dunn v. State (Tex. Crim. App. 1985), 696 S.W.2d 561, a pre-Burbine decision, as grounded in that State’s constitution).

Griggs presented this court with a second opportunity to reexamine Smith and Burbine. In Griggs, the indications that this court intended to preserve Smith’s requirements for police conduct as State law became even stronger. In this regard, Griggs bears close examination, not only in terms of its substance, but also in terms of the grounds supporting the decision. Griggs is grounded in State law.

First, Griggs’ analysis relied almost entirely on State decisional law. Griggs referred extensively to preBurbine and post-Burbine State-constitutional-law decisions, reaching conclusions contrary to Burbine, but similar to Smith. (See Griggs, 152 Ill. 2d at 25-28.) Griggs not only expressly reaffirmed Smith and relied extensively on its reasoning, but also quoted, at length, benchmark language from Haynes, a pre-Burbine State-law decision. (See Griggs, 152 Ill. 2d at 25-29; see also Note, Developments in the Law, 95 Harv. L. Rev. 1324, 1389-90 (1982) (describing "retroactive incorporation,” a process whereby a State court adopts as a matter of State constitutional law its own earlier Federal constitutional interpretation).) Griggs, furthermore, declined to follow Burbine, relying on State-law authorities and the views of the Burbine dissenters to reject Burbine’s basic premises. (Griggs, 152 Ill. 2d at 25, 27-28.) Simply in terms of the authorities it relied on, Griggs constitutes a State-law decision. See Lohraf, United States v. Leon and Illinois v. Gates: A Call for State Courts to Develop State Constitutional Law, 1987 U. Ill. L. Rev. 311, 342 (recommending that State courts rely on State-specific factors, opinions of other State courts and the incorporation as State law of prior State decisions that relied on Federal law to avoid Supreme Court review of divergent opinions); see also Michigan v. Long (1983), 463 U.S. 1032, 1041, 77 L. Ed. 2d 1201, 1214, 103 S. Ct. 3469, 3476 (when State-court decisions clearly based on State law that is adequate and independent, Supreme Court will not review decision).

Griggs is also a State-constitutional-law decision in terms of the substance of its analysis. In Griggs, this court unequivocally rejected Burbine’s fundamental premises that police interference with an attorney’s access to a custodial-suspect client is irrelevant to waiver of the right to counsel during custodial interrogation and that the information that a retained attorney is available is simply helpful and constitutionally irrelevant to a knowing waiver. Griggs stated, directly contrary to the holding of Burbine:

"We do not consider that police interference with an attorney’s access to a client has 'no bearing on [a defendant’s] capacity to comprehend and knowingly relinquish a constitutional right.’ [Citation.] Since we do not deem constitutionally irrelevant police interference with an attorney’s access to a client, we do not agree that a waiver so obtained may be said to have been 'made with a full awareness both of the nature of the right being abandoned and the consequences of the decision to abandon it.’ ” (Emphasis added.) (Griggs, 152 Ill. 2d at 27, quoting Burbine, 475 U.S. at 421-22, 89 L. Ed. at 421, 106 S. Ct. at 1141.)

Similarly, Griggs stated:

"[T]o have specifically informed defendant of the attorney’s immediate availability in no way would have required the police to supply a 'flow of information’ designed to help the defendant 'calibrate his self-interest.’ ” Griggs, 152 Ill. 2d at 28, quoting Burbine, 475 U.S. at 422, 89 L. Ed. 2d at 421, 106 S. a. at 1141. Relying on the Burbine dissenters’ reasoning, Griggs

again expressed disagreement with the majority’s reasoning concerning the constitutional significance of the withheld information:

"There is a valid distinction to be made between failure to provide generally useful information and 'affirmative police interference in a communication between an attorney and a suspect [when the information withheld by the police] bears directly on the right to counsel that police are asking the suspect to waive.’ ” (Griggs, 152 Ill. 2d at 27-28, quoting Burbine, 475 U.S. at 456 n.42, 89 L. Ed. 2d at 443 n.42, 106 S. a. at 1159 n.42.)

Indeed, Griggs expressed the view, soundly rejected by Burbine, that not requiring the police to inform a suspect resulted in his impermissible isolation. Griggs, 152 Ill. 2d at 28.

In concluding the analysis, Griggs quoted both the holding of Smith and a statement from a yost-Burbine State-law decision, which disagreed with Burbine's reasoning:

" 'We are unwilling, however, to dismiss counsel’s efforts to communicate as constitutionally insignificant to the capacity of the suspect to make a knowing and intelligent choice of whether he or she will invoke the right to counsel.’ ” (Emphasis added.) Griggs, 152 Ill. 2d at 28, quoting Stoddard, 206 Conn. at 167-68, 537 A.2d at 45253.

By endorsing this view, Griggs rejected both Burbine’s notion that information of certain events could have no bearing on a suspect’s "capacity” or "ability” to comprehend his rights and that a suspect’s waiver decision does not implicate the opportunity to be advised by counsel. It could not be any clearer that this court, in Griggs, completely disagreed with the United States Supreme Court about what constitutes a knowing waiver of the constitutional right to counsel during custodial interrogation. It could not be any clearer that this court also accepted the Supreme Court’s invitation concerning requirements for police conduct grounded in State law. While Griggs relied to a limited extent on a factual distinction (the suspect’s awareness that counsel was retained), which might support the decision as being grounded in Federal law, that distinction is dwarfed in comparison to Griggs’ fundamental rejection of Burbine’s basic premises.

The State, itself, acknowledges that there is an "unnecessary tension” between Burbine and Griggs. The State, however, views Griggs as a Federal decision which simply "deviat[es]” from Burbine, rather than a State-law decision which rejects the very premises of Burbine’s constitutional analysis.

The extent of this court’s disagreement with Burbine’s basic premises and the extent of its reliance on other State-law authorities make clear, however, that Griggs represents State constitutional law. (See Welsh, Reconsidering the Constitutional Relationship Between State and Federal Courts: A Critique of Michigan v. Long, 59 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1118, 1123 (1984) (United States Supreme Court in deciding jurisdictional grounds supporting a decision adheres to the "say-so” view: State judges make whatever law they say they are making).) Concerning this point, it would be difficult to conceive that Griggs would fail the "adequate and independent state grounds” test referred to in Michigan v. Long, 463 U.S. at 1039, 77 L. Ed. 2d at 1212, 103 S. Ct. at 3475. (See Note, Developments in the Law, 95 Harv. L. Rev. 1324, 1331 (1984) (jurisdictional principles which guide Supreme Court in deciding when to review State court decisions involving State-law questions are central determinants of State constitutional law’s independence from Federal constraints).) Certainly also, the factual distinction which Griggs unnecessarily attempted is conceptually meaningless as a statement of Federal law. (See Griggs, 152 Ill. 2d at 38 (Miller, C.J., dissenting) (distinction based on defendant’s awareness that counsel was retained is "simply illusory”).) Indeed, the State has conceded this point. Under Burbine’s analysis, a suspect’s waiver would be no less knowing and intelligent where police failed to inform the suspect that his expected, identifiable or known retained attorney was available. Burbine clearly decided the issue, under Federal law, as to whether a suspect’s waiver could be knowing and intelligent, despite the withholding of information by police from the suspect that his anticipated or identifiable counsel was available. Simply put, there is no tenable basis in Federal constitutional law for the Griggs decision.

Both parties in the present case claim that Griggs supports their respective positions. We note that the State’s argument obtains regardless of the fact that Griggs represents State-constitution decisional law. The State claims that the present case is factually distinguishable from Griggs because defendant here was unaware that an attorney had been retained.

The State claims that we must follow Burbine as we interpret our State guarantee because Griggs turns on this factual distinction. According to the State, a suspect’s awareness of the retention of an attorney reflects the suspect’s participation in the process. According to the State, such participation, if known to police, is an effective invocation of the right to counsel during custodial interrogation. According to defendant, however, the factual distinction in Griggs resulted from this court’s reluctance to go beyond the facts presented; the defendant’s awareness of his attorney’s retention was not critical to the court’s constitutional analysis.

We first note that in the context of deciding State guarantees, Federal authorities are not precedentially controlling; they merely guide the interpretation of State law. See Rollins v. Ellwood (1990), 141 Ill. 2d 244, 275 (while this court may, in construing State due process guarantee, look for "guidance and inspiration” to constructions of Federal guarantee by Federal courts, final conclusions on construction of State guarantee are for this court to decide).

There is little indication in the Griggs decision regarding the basis for its factual distinction. In Holland, the defendant’s awareness that counsel had been retained was seemingly related to his invocation of the right to counsel as opposed to establishing his knowledge for purposes of waiver. (See Holland, 121 Ill. 2d at 153 (distinguishing the facts from Smith, the court stated that "[h]ere, as in Burbine, a relative secured counsel for the suspect; the suspect was unaware” and "[i]n Smith, the suspect actually met with an attorney after his arrest and personally retained him”).) The Griggs court, however, later appeared to view Holland as turning on the fact that there had been no wrongful denial of attorney access as opposed to the unawareness of counsel’s retention by the defendant. See Griggs, 152 Ill. 2d at 24 ("[s]ince there was no evidence that the attorney requested access to the client, there could have been no wrongful denial of attorney access and no reason to apply the rule of Smith”).

Very significantly, Smith’s rule, as originally stated, has application regardless of the manner in which the attorney-client relationship arises. (Smith, 93 Ill. 2d at 189 ("when police *** refuse an attorney appointed or retained ***”) (emphasis added).) In point of fact, also, Smith’s rule was based on decisions where relatives had retained counsel for the suspect, without mention of whether he was aware of counsel’s retention or not. Smith, 93 Ill. 2d at 186-88 (citing cases).

We believe that this factual distinction, based on the defendant’s awareness of counsel’s retention, was unnecessary to both the result in Griggs as well as its rationale. The distinction is susceptible to being eliminated from the opinion without substantially affecting either. Certainly, Griggs’ conceptual disagreement with Burbine does not depend whatsoever on this legally irrelevant distinction. It would seem that Griggs relied on this factual difference simply to bolster its rejection of Burbine and as an attempt, as well, to apply the facts of Smith, in the narrowest possible sense, to the State claim before it. The rule of Smith, however, applies where a suspect is not informed that his attorney is present, unsuccessfully seeking access to him. A suspect’s awareness of his attorney’s retention or the manner of the attorney’s hire is simply not decisive of Smith’s application.

We do not accept that this highly questionable factual distinction is a sufficient basis to differentiate this case from the reasoning and result in Griggs. Although in both cases the defendant’s family retained counsel for him, in Griggs the defendant was fortunate enough to allege that he knew about it. It is more than likely that in most cases where families of custodial suspects have retained legal counsel for them, the suspects "knew” their families were doing so, whether based on having a family lawyer, prior practice, some limited form of communication, or simply a "hunch.” How else, without generally involving some sort of communication between them, would families of suspects know that the suspects were in custody and needed an attorney?

Further and more importantly, we are not prepared to allow the interpretation of our State constitutional requirements to turn on such an arbitrary and unprincipled distinction. "What is the legal significance, in terms of our State guarantee, of a suspect’s awareness of counsel’s retention? The stated holding in Griggs bears witness to the utter lack of a conceptual difference between that case and the present case:

"If the circuit court finds that defendant knew that an attorney was being retained for him, that the attorney was present and had requested access to defendant *** and that police refused to so inform defendant of the immediate availability of his attorney, the circuit court shall allow defendant’s motion to suppress. *** Under these circumstances, there would have been no knowing waiver of defendant’s constitutional right against self-incrimination.” (Emphasis added.) (Griggs, 152 Ill. 2d at 30.)

It is highly unlikely that any defendant, including the defendant here, if offered the opportunity to show that he was somehow aware of counsel’s retention, would not be able to do so. Thus, to the extent that this distinction is advanced as legally significant, a different result in this case as compared to that in Griggs would be unfair.

We conclude that Holland preserved the Smith rule as an appropriate interpretation of our State constitutional guarantees. (See Holland, 121 Ill. 2d at 166 (Clark, C.J., specially concurring).) This court in Griggs then expressly reaffirmed and relied on Smith’s rationale as a matter of State constitutional law to reject Burbine’s Federal constitutional analysis. (See State v. Opperman (S.D. 1976), 247 N.W.2d 673, 675 (affirming rationale of earlier decision as a matter of State constitutional law).) Thus, Griggs as well as Smith necessarily constitute State law which may properly guide this court in deciding defendant’s rights under section 10 of article I of our State constitution. (See J. Nowak, R. Rotunda & J. Young, Treatise on Constitutional Law ch. 1.6, at 69-72 (2d ed. 1992) (State courts possess ultimate authority to interpret State law).) Rather than blindly follow the reasoning of a United States Supreme Court decision at all costs, this court determines to continue the independent trend it began in Holland and Griggs, clarify the State grounds of Griggs as well as its problematic factual distinction, and apply the Smith rule to defendant’s article I, section 10, claim.

Justice Simon’s admonition bears repeating. "It is the nature of the Federal system that we, as the justices of the Illinois Supreme Court, are sovereign in our own sphere; in construing the State Constitution we must answer to our own consciences and rely upon our own wisdom and insights. 'If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.’ ” People v. Rolfingsmeyer (1984), 101 Ill. 2d 137, 147 (Simon, J., specially concurring), quoting New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann (1932), 285 U.S. 262, 311, 76 L. Ed. 747, 771, 52 S. Ct. 371, 387 (Brandeis, J., dissenting, joined by Stone, J.).

That our State self-incrimination guarantee does not countenance the police conduct here is evidenced by yet another consideration. The 1970 Illinois Constitutional Convention debates indicate that the delegates intended that article I, section 10, incorporate then-existing Federal constitutional principles regarding incommunicado interrogation. (See People v. DiGuida (1992), 152 Ill. 2d 104 (court will look to intent behind our constitution in order to determine whether comparable provisions of our State constitution should be interpreted similarly to those of the Federal Constitution).) At the time of the debates, the cases of Escobedo, 378 U.S. 478, 12 L. Ed. 2d 977, 84 S. Ct. 1758, and Miranda, 384 U.S. 436, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694, 86 S. Ct. 1602, were of recent vintage.

Delegate Weisberg, a member of the Committee on the Bill of Rights, who had argued Escobedo before the Supreme Court, assured the convention at large that the committee had decided that "whichever phrasing were to be put into *** section 10, that the existing state of the law would remain unchanged.” (3 Record of Proceedings, Sixth Illinois Constitutional Convention 1377.) None of the delegates who participated in the debate took issue with Weisberg’s statements. They were also fully apprised by the convention essays and other provided materials of Escobedo’s and Miranda’s then-accepted interpretations, and were also informed of the import of retaining language from the former constitution (see S. Gove & V. Ranney, Con-Con: Issues from the Illinois Constitutional Convention 3, 24-35, 30, 48 (1970); G. Braden & R. Cohn, The Illinois Constitution: An Annotated and Comparative Analysis 43-45 (1969)).

Based on Smith, Holland, Griggs and the proceedings of the constitutional convention, it is clear that the suppression of defendant’s statements was supported under our State guarantee against self-incrimination.

This court has not consistently applied the so-called lockstep doctrine as an assist in interpreting article I, section 2, the due process clause in our State constitution. In fact, this court has expressly asserted its independence in interpreting this particular provision of our constitution. (See Rollins v. Ellwood (1990), 141 Ill. 2d 244, 275; People ex rel. Burris v. Ryan (1991), 147 Ill. 2d 270, 280.) We should not hesitate then to independently consider whether the police conduct here also violated due process principles under our State constitution.

Due process preserves an individual’s personal and property rights from the arbitrary action of public officers. (See People v. Belcastro (1934), 356 Ill. 144, 147.) "The essence of due process is 'fundamental fairness.’ ” (Burris, 147 Ill. 2d at 310 (Bilandic, J., dissenting), quoting Lassiter v. Department of Social Services (1981), 452 U.S. 18, 24, 68 L. Ed. 2d 640, 648, 101 S. Ct. 2153, 2158.) Due process essentially requires "fairness, integrity, and honor in the operation of the criminal justice system, and in its treatment of the citizen’s cardinal constitutional protections.” (See Burbine, 475 U.S. at 467, 89 L. Ed. 2d at 450, 106 S. Ct. at 1165 (Stevens, J., dissenting, joined by Brennan and Marshall, JJ.).) Furthermore, due process contemplates that police act in an accusatorial, not an inquisitorial, manner. See Walls v. State (Fla. 1991), 580 So. 2d 131, 133.

In Illinois, due process of law requires that an accused shall be given the benefit of counsel. (See United States ex rel. Hall v. Ragen (N.D. Ill. 1945), 60 F. Supp. 820, 821.) Due process also requires that an accused is entitled to counsel during any custodial interrogation. (See 11A Ill. L. & Prac. Constitutional Law § 477, at 410 (1981).) The State due process guarantee (article I, section 2) provides the general basis for an accused’s right to the assistance as well as presence of counsel during any custodial interrogation.

As a general matter, the right to the assistance of counsel has been afforded historically a certain degree of judicial solicitude and due process protection in Illinois. Along with other circumstances, the deliberate denial to a suspect of counsel’s assistance has resulted in an involuntary confession violative of due process. (See People v. Price (1962), 24 Ill. 2d 46, 58.) So too, the failure to appoint counsel, under certain circumstances, has also violated due process. (People v. Lewis (1952), 413 Ill. 116, 122.) Further, the right to the assistance of counsel has not been considered satisfied by the mere formality of an appointment of an attorney, but has required effective representation, and where the representation was of such low caliber as to amount to no representation, due process was again held violated. (See People v. De Simone (1956), 9 Ill. 2d 522; cf. People v. Albanese (1984), 104 Ill. 2d 504.) Similarly, it has been recognized that any restriction on the rights of an attorney to give advice seriously impairs the constitutional rights of the client to receive that advice and thus also violates due process. (See People ex rel. Kunce v. Hogan (1976), 37 Ill. App. 3d 673.) It is also recognized that an accused has the right to be represented by retained counsel of his own choosing. See People v. Johnson (1979), 75 Ill. 2d 180, 185.

Concerning, in particular, the right to the presence of counsel during custodial interrogation, it is not sufficient for authorities to merely advise a suspect of a generalized right to an attorney. (Cf Haynes, 288 Or. at 71, 602 P.2d at 278 (right enforced is not generalized right to counsel, but "more concretely, the derivative right to the benefit of counsel’s efforts to forestall involuntary incriminating disclosures”) (emphasis added).) There are certain requirements that are affixed to the right which seek to ensure its practical effectuation. Authorities must inform suspects that if they cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided, and that they may ask for one at any time and upon doing so, the interrogation must cease. Furthermore, it is not required that a suspect’s request for counsel be absolutely articulate, because a sufficient but clear indication of a desire for counsel will trigger the entitlement. See People v. Krueger (1980), 82 Ill. 2d 305, 310-11.

In addition, the citizens of Illinois have historically recognized, even before Miranda, a statutory right of persons in custody to consult with their retained counsel and a concomitant duty on the part of public officers to admit such counsel to persons in custody. See Ill. Rev. Stat. 1874, ch. 38, par. 229 (all "public officers *** having the custody of any person *** restrained of his liberty *** shall *** admit any practicing attorney *** whom such person *** may desire to see or consult, to see and consult such person”); Ill. Rev. Stat. 1951, ch. 38, par. 449.1 ("[wjhoever shall, while holding another person in custody, deny that other person his right to consult and be advised by an attorney ***, whether or not such person is charged with a crime *** shall be fined”), par. 477 (formerly section 229); Ill. Rev. Stat. 1959, ch. 38, par. 449.1 (same), par. 477 (same); Ill. Rev. Stat. 1961, ch. 38, par. 736b (formerly section 449.1), par. 736c (formerly section 477).

Section 103 — 4 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 incorporates all of these formerly operational provisions, providing that "any person committed, imprisoned or restrained of his liberty for any cause whatever and whether or not such person is charged with an offense shall *** be allowed to consult with any licensed attorney at law *** whom such person may desire to see or consult.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 38, par. 103 — 4.) The committee comments to section 103 — 4 state that the provision incorporates former section 736c. The committee comments also state that the present section 103 — 4 includes the right to consult and be advised by an attorney at law whether charged or not, formerly provided in section 736b; and the right that "[i]n all cases counsel shall have access to persons confined and shall have the right to see and consult such persons in private,” which was formerly provided in section 730. See Ill. Ann. Stat., ch. 38, par. 103 — 4, Committee Comments — 1963, at 49 (Smith-Hurd 1980).

These provisions address process designed to ensure fundamental fairness to persons in custody. See Comment, Right to Communicate With Retained Counsel Upon Detention Or Arrest: State Statutory Guarantees, 1962 U. Ill. L. F. 641, 646 (referring to Ill. Rev. Stat. 1961, ch. 38, pars. 736(b), (c), and commenting that State legislatures are probably afforded the best opportunity to balance competing policies attendant to custodial interrogation within the flexible constitutional framework of due process).

Considering these facts and principles, it is clear that the constitutional and statutory policies of our State favor a person having the assistance of counsel during custodial interrogation and contemplate prohibiting interference with that assistance by governmental authorities. If a defendant is entitled to the benefit of an attorney’s assistance and presence during custodial interrogation and this right is guarded, certainly fundamental fairness requires that immediately available assistance and presence not be denied by police authorities. Put another way, due process is violated when police interfere with a suspect’s right to his attorney’s assistance and presence by affirmatively preventing the suspect, exposed to interrogation, from receiving the immediately available assistance of an attorney hired or appointed to represent him. (See Bryon v. State (Del. 1990), 571 A.2d 170 (holding that the police denial of the assistance of counsel to the defendant violated Delaware’s due process provision); Haliburton v. State (Fla. 1987), 514 So. 2d 1088 (holding that the police denial of an attorney’s access to his client violated Florida due process provision).) To do so is clearly and fundamentally unfair. "[P]olice interference in the attorney-client relationship is the type of governmental misconduct on a matter of central importance to the administration of justice that the Due Process Clause prohibits.... Just as the government cannot conceal from a suspect material and exculpatory evidence, so too the government cannot conceal from a suspect the material fact of his attorney’s communication.” See Haliburton, 514 So. 2d at 1090.

The trial court properly suppressed defendant’s statements based on State decisional law (Smith and Griggs) interpreting the privilege against self-incrimination under the Illinois Constitution. The record shows that police refused defendant’s retained attorney’s access to defendant and did not inform defendant that his attorney was present at the station, seeking to consult with him. Under such circumstances, the State failed to satisfy its heavy burden of showing that there had been a knowing waiver of the right to counsel under article I, section 10. "While we recognize that an accused alone invokes the right to counsel, we are unwilling to dismiss an available retained or appointed attorney’s efforts to gain access to his suspect-client as constitutionally insignificant to the capacity of the suspect to make a knowing and intelligent choice to relinquish his right to the attorney’s presence.

"Miranda warnings refer only to an abstract right to counsel. That a suspect validly waives the presence of counsel 'only means that for the moment the suspect is foregoing the exercise of that conceptual privilege ***. To pass up an abstract offer to call some unknown lawyer is very different from refusing to talk with an identified attorney actually available to provide at least initial assistance and advice ***. A suspect indifferent to the first offer may well react quite differently to the second.’ ” (Stoddard, 206 Conn. at 168, 537 A.2d at 453, quoting Haynes, 288 Or. at 72, 602 P.2d at 280.)

Certainly, "when the opportunity to consult is in fact frustrated, there is no room for speculation what defendant might or might not have chosen to do after he had that opportunity.” (Haynes, 288 Or. at 75, 602 P.2d at 280.) "The critical inquiry is whether the information withheld by the police would have changed the defendant’s appraisal and understanding of the circumstances of the waiver.” Wright, 441 Mich, at 151, 490 N.W. 2d at 356, citing Stoddard, 206 Conn. at 175, 537 A.2d at 456.

Moreover, the police conduct here is not simply a failure to supply generally useful information, but a failure to apprise defendant of communications from his attorney bearing directly on the right to counsel. (See Burbine, 475 U.S. at 456 n.42, 89 L. Ed. 2d at 443 n.42, 106 S. Ct. at 1160 n.42 (Stevens, J., dissenting).) Defendant was thus denied information necessary to knowingly and intelligently waive his right to his attorney’s presence as well as the actual and immediately available assistance of his own attorney. (Cf. People v. Hobson (1976), 39 N.Y.2d 479, 348 N.E.2d 894 (attempt by State authorities to secure waiver of right to counsel in absence of the retained or assigned attorney constituted breach of Disciplinary Rule 7 — 104(A)(1) of the American Bar Association Code of Professional Responsibility and constitutional due process).) The police conduct thus violated defendant’s privilege against compelled self-incrimination as well as his right to due process. "No system worth preserving should have to fear that if an accused is permitted to consult with a lawyer, he will become aware of, and exercise, [his] rights.” (Emphasis omitted.) (Escobedo, 378 U.S. at 490, 12 L. Ed. 2d at 985, 84 S. Ct. at 1764.) If our system is, indeed, such a system, we have no reason to fear both lawful and protected consultation. The trial court did not err in suppressing defendant’s statements on the basis of our State constitutional rights and privileges.

Suppression of Lineup Identification

The State argues that exclusion of defendant’s lineup identification is insupportable under either section 10 (privilege against self-incrimination) or section 2 (due process protections) of article I of the Illinois Constitution (Ill. Const. 1970, art. I, §§ 2, 10). We agree.

While we have found that defendant’s statement was properly suppressed due to the invalidity of a purported waiver of the right to counsel under section 10, which also violated due process, it does not follow that suppression of evidence of the lineup identification was also proper.

Section 10 " ’protects an accused only from being compelled to testify against himself, or otherwise provide the State with evidence of a testimonial or communicative nature ***.’ ” (People ex rel. Bowman v. Woodward (1976), 63 Ill. 2d 382, 385, quoting Schmerber v. California (1966), 384 U.S. 757, 761, 16 L. Ed. 2d 908, 914, 86 S. Ct. 1826,1830.) This court has also determined that a pretrial lineup does not involve compelling an accused to give evidence of a testimonial nature. (See People v. Nelson (1968), 40 Ill. 2d 146, 153.) As a consequence, section 10 extends no right to counsel to a defendant while undergoing a pretrial lineup, and principles associated with that right to counsel could not have been violated by defendant’s participation in the lineup.

The question of the right to counsel at a pretrial lineup may only involve the right which is conferred by the sixth amendment or article I, section 8, of the Illinois Constitution (Ill. Const. 1970, art. I, § 8). Decisions of this court show, however, that this right to counsel has been consistently interpreted as arising only when adversary judicial proceedings have been initiated. (See People v. Johnson (1973), 55 Ill. 2d 62, 73; People v. Reese (1973), 54 Ill. 2d 51, 60.) A lineup which is held after the initiation of adversary judicial criminal proceedings without the presence of counsel for the accused is unconstitutional. Once it has been determined that a lineup violates this right to counsel, any evidence adduced by the prosecution that a witness identified the defendant at the lineup is subject to a per se rule of exclusion. People v. Curtis (1986), 113 Ill. 2d 136, 143.

In this case, there is no question that adversary judicial proceedings had not been initiated at the time that defendant underwent the lineup. Defendant, then, was not entitled to the assistance of counsel at the lineup, and his right to counsel under section 8 could not have been violated.

Since defendant possessed no right to counsel at the lineup under either section 10-or 8, suppressing evidence of defendant’s lineup identification could not have served to safeguard either of those rights. (Cf. People v. Winsett (1992), 153 Ill. 2d 335, 352 (Miranda exclusionary rule is judicially created device designed to safeguard defendant’s constitutional rights by barring the use of statements taken in disregard of related constitutional principles).) The exclusionary sanction applied by the trial court here bore no relation to any violation of constitutional rights or principles under either section 8 or 10 and was insupportable on those bases.

Suppression of defendant’s lineup identification here is also insupportable under section 2 (due process). Assuming that a violation of section 2 had been found, the exclusionary rule’s limitations would apply. This court recognizes the "fruit of the poisonous tree” doctrine to apply where police violate a defendant’s constitutional rights. The constitutional violation is termed the "poisonous tree” and any evidence which the State obtains by exploiting that constitutional violation is subject to suppression as the "fruit” of that poisonous tree. (See Winsett, 153 Ill. 2d at 351.) When police conduct results in a violation of constitutional rights, evidence obtained as a result of that violation, and only evidence so obtained, is to be suppressed. New York v. Harris (1990), 495 U.S. 14, 109 L. Ed. 2d 13, 110 S. Ct. 1640.

Here, evidence of defendant’s lineup identification could not be considered the "fruit” of the alleged violation of due process rights. The police conduct, assuming that it violated due process, does not result in defendant being subjected to the lineup identification. Defendant would have been required to participate in the lineup regardless of whether he had been allowed to consult with his attorney or was informed that his attorney was present. (See Nelson, 40 Ill. 2d at 152 (holding defendant does not have a right to refuse to submit to lineup).) Because the lineup identification was not the fruit of that alleged police misconduct, there could be no basis to suppress evidence of the lineup identification. We conclude that the trial court erred in suppressing defendant’s lineup identification on this basis as well.

For the foregoing reasons, we would affirm the trial court’s order suppressing any statements defendant made after his attorney was present at the station and refused access to him. We would reverse the trial court’s order suppressing evidence of the lineup identification of defendant. The judgments of the appellate and circuit courts are therefore affirmed in part and reversed in part, and the cause is remanded to the circuit court for further proceedings.

Appellate court affirmed in part and reversed in part; circuit court affirmed in part and reversed in part; cause remanded.