delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.
Chief Justice Thomas and Justices Fitzgerald and Karmeier concurred in the judgment and opinion.
Justice Burke specially concurred, with opinion.
Justices Freeman dissented, with opinion, joined by Justice Kilbride.
OPINION
In November 2001, defendant, Jesse Galan, was indicted for possession with intent to deliver 900 or more grams of cocaine and more than 5,000 grams of cannabis. The evidence against him was suppressed by the circuit court of Cook County and the State filed a “Certificate of Substantial Impairment” and brought an interlocutory appeal pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 604(a)(1) (210 Ill. 2d R. 604(a)(1)). The appellate court affirmed. 367 Ill. App. 3d 876. After its petition for rehearing was denied, the State filed and was granted leave to appeal to this court pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 315 (210 Ill. 2d R. 315).
There are two issues in this case: first, whether Illinois courts must inquire into extradition irregularities for crimes committed within Illinois’ borders; and, second, whether exclusion is the appropriate remedy when Illinois police violate a postarrest provision of another state’s fresh pursuit statute. We reverse.
BACKGROUND
On October 11, 2001, defendant drove his truck onto the Chicago Skyway, entering the Skyway from an Illinois on-ramp. After continuing onto a tollbooth 0.8 miles into Indiana, defendant was stopped by several Chicago police officers. Defendant’s vehicle was searched, and police recovered two boxes filled with marijuana. Defendant was arrested and taken to his mother’s house at 8521 South Burley Avenue in Chicago, where he sometimes resided. Police conducted a search of the house in the presence of defendant and his mother and stepfather, eventually recovering two pistols, approximately $10,000 in cash, and cocaine. A probable cause hearing was held and defendant was eventually indicted by a Cook County grand jury, as indicated above.
Prior to trial, defendant filed a motion to quash arrest and suppress evidence. The motion was filed on July 23, 2002, and requested the trial court to “[qjuash [defendant’s] arrest, because of the absence of authority of probable cause to effect it, and to suppress from introduction into evidence in this cause, the following: (a) Physical evidence discovered and as a result of arrest and detention; (b) Statements, utterances, reports of gestures and responses by petitioner during the detention following the arrest[ ] i.e. oral statements of defendant^] (c) All other knowledge and fruits thereof, witnesses statements, whether written, or oral or gestural and products of the arrest.” Defendant asserted that during his arrest and subsequent detention, the State “became aware of the existence of physical evidence all the direct and indirect fruits of the arrest and detention, which connect petitioner with the instant offense.” The trial court conducted an evidentiary hearing on September 17, 2003.
Defendant testified that he was driving his truck toward Indiana when he was stopped at the tollbooth, past the “mile 1” marker located in Indiana. He stated that several men dressed in plain clothes, who it soon became apparent were Chicago police officers, approached him at the tollbooth with guns drawn and ordered him out of his truck, placed him in handcuffs, and forced him onto the ground. Defendant testified that he did not give the men permission to search his truck. Defendant acknowledged that when the truck was searched, police recovered two boxes of marijuana and told him he was under arrest.
Defendant testified that the police then took him back to his mother’s house in Illinois. He stated that he occasionally resided at his mother’s house and had come from that address when he was stopped at the tollbooth. Defendant testified that officers knocked on the door of his mother’s house and asked him if they could search the house. Defendant testified that he told the officers they could not search the house. He also testified, though, that his mother eventually opened the door and, upon learning that the police had “busted [defendant] with some marijuana,” agreed, after being asked, to allow the officers to search the home. Defendant maintained that while he later signed a consent to search, he only did so after officers threatened to arrest his mother and stepfather. Defendant acknowledged that in searching the house, police found other contraband. He asserted, however, that this contraband was found before he signed the consent to search.
On cross-examination, defendant testified that after he was removed from his truck by the police, the officers moved him away from traffic and told him he was under arrest. Defendant stated that at this point officers began searching his truck and found the two boxes containing marijuana in the truck’s backseat. Defendant testified that the officers eventually informed him that he was in trouble and they were planning to take him back to the house he had come from, which he understood to be his mother’s house. Following this testimony, defendant answered several more questions regarding the circumstances surrounding the search of his mother’s home.
The State called Officer Brian Luce, one of the Chicago police officers involved in arresting defendant. Luce testified that he was part of the Chicago police department’s narcotics and gangs investigation section. Luce stated that after obtaining information from a confidential informant, police became interested in defendant. This informant indicated that defendant lived at 8521 South Burley Avenue and 9735 Avenue M in Chicago. Moreover, the informant stated that defendant was storing, selling, and manufacturing large quantities of marijuana. Based on this information, the Chicago police department began an investigation, in which Luce took part.
Luce testified that on October 11, 2001, he was conducting surveillance on the Avenue M address as part of the ongoing investigation. Luce indicated that other officers were conducting surveillance on the Burley Avenue address. Luce observed defendant and another individual, Jose Mojica, leave the Avenue M address and drive to the Burley Avenue address in defendant’s truck. Luce saw defendant and Mojica get out of the truck and enter the house at 8521 South Burley. At this point, Luce picked a surveillance spot around the block while another officer set up surveillance on the front door. Luce then received a radio communication from the other officer that defendant and Mojica, who was carrying a white bag, left the house, got back in the truck, and headed back to the Avenue M address.
Luce followed the men back to the Avenue M address and observed Mojica, still carrying the white bag, exit the truck and get into a Nissan Maxima by himself. At this point, part of the surveillance team, including Luce, followed the Nissan, while another part of the surveillance team remained at the Avenue M address. Eventually, a marked police car pulled Mojica over and Luce was informed by radio that Mojica did not have a valid driver’s license and was going to be taken to a police station for a traffic violator bond. Luce further testified that the beige Maxima was taken to the police station, where a custodial search was performed and the white bag, the same bag that was observed going into the car, was found to contain a large amount of currency.
After being informed that Mojica was in custody and a large amount of currency was found, Luce was told to go back to Avenue M and continue surveillance. Luce observed defendant again leave the Avenue M address and return to the Burley Avenue address. Luce testified that another officer saw defendant enter the house and then exit, carrying a brown box. Luce testified that the other officer told him that while taking the box to his truck, defendant was looking up and down the street. Defendant then repeated this action, entering the house, leaving with a second brown box, and taking it to his truck, nervously looking up and down the street.
Luce stated that after defendant entered the truck he pulled away, only to stop approximately 50 to 100 feet from the Burley Avenue address and look up and down the street, watching the cars as they passed. Luce, who was then following defendant, had to drive by in his unmarked vehicle. In driving by, Luce observed defendant looking out his driver’s side window in several different directions. Luce testified that based upon his experience as a Chicago police officer, defendant’s actions constituted countersurveillance or tactics used to see if police are in the area.
After driving by defendant, Luce drove around the block and was informed over the radio that defendant made an illegal U-turn, crossing two lanes. Luce was eventually able to reposition himself behind defendant’s truck. Luce testified that officers continued “moving surveillance” and observed defendant travel from Burley Avenue to Indianapolis Boulevard and then onto 106th Street, where he veered from the far left to the far right lane, without signaling, across three or four lanes of traffic, traveling to the Skyway on-ramp. Luce stated that defendant’s “erratic move from the left [lane] all the way to the right [lane]” led police to believe that their surveillance was compromised. Again, Luce and other officers believed that defendant’s conduct indicated that he was either trying to get away or utilizing countersurveillance tactics to see if he was being followed. At that point, Luce and the other officers agreed to stop defendant’s vehicle to investigate.
Luce testified that officers stopped defendant’s truck “right at the tollbooth” and quickly ran up to the car with guns drawn. Once it was safe, the officers bolstered their guns. Luce stated that when he approached the vehicle and opened the passenger door, he smelled a strong odor of cannabis. Luce testified that he had smelled this odor before while carrying out his duties as a Chicago police officer and it was not easily confused with any other smell. Luce testified that officers asked defendant what was in the boxes and he answered that it was “weed,” a street term for cannabis, and asked if he was in trouble. Moreover, defendant stated that he believed there was 20 pounds of cannabis in the boxes. Luce stated that officers then took defendant out of the truck, pulled it to the side of the highway, and began talking to defendant. During that conversation, officers told defendant what they had seen that day, informed him that he was under arrest, and advised him of his rights.
After reading defendant his rights, Luce continued speaking with defendant, informing him of the ongoing investigation, noting that they had found the cannabis and indicating that they wished to search defendant’s home. Officers then brought defendant back to the Burley Avenue address and, Luce testified, defendant agreed to sign a consent-to-search form. Luce testified that he did not physically threaten defendant or act abusive toward him and defendant simply signed the form in the presence of another officer. Luce further testified that he signed the consent-to-search form. Moreover, he stated that the form was signed before the house was searched. Luce testified that defendant was cooperative, appeared to be nervous, and wanted to work with police.
Luce testified that officers then conducted a search of the residence, in the presence of defendant’s mother and stepfather. As already noted, they recovered two pistols, approximately $10,000 in cash, and cocaine. Additionally, Luce testified that police found an envelope addressed to defendant at 8521 South Burley Avenue. Moreover, Luce stated that he did not make any threats to defendant regarding his parents, nor did he threaten defendant’s parents with arrest in order to gain more cooperation from defendant.
Before the State finished its questioning, Luce testified to one last matter regarding Mojica. Luce testified that he was informed by other officers that when Mojica was stopped and police found him in possession of around $80,000, Mojica lied regarding its origins. Mojica stated that the money was brought to him at a location that officers, based upon their surveillance, knew not to be true. Luce testified, as he had previously, that officers observed Mojica retrieve a white bag from the Burley Avenue address, take that bag to the Avenue M address, exit defendant’s truck with the bag, and then get into the Nissan Maxima with the bag. Surveillance never lost sight of the vehicle or Mojica, and when Mojica was stopped, the bag containing the currency was recovered.
On cross-examination, Luce acknowledged that the informant police relied upon in this case was unknown to him. Additionally, Luce did not know and his report did not indicate that the informant ever saw narcotics inside 8521 South Burley Avenue. Moreover, Luce did not know if the informant, described as a confidential informant, had ever been used in prior cases and Luce’s report did not indicate that the informant was reliable. Luce testified, though, that surveillance was set up based upon the information from this informant.
Luce acknowledged that no one saw where the bag containing currency came from or who gave it to Mojica, merely that Mojica came out of the South Burley Avenue address carrying it. Additionally, Luce admitted that neither he nor any other officers could see through the bag. Moreover, Luce testified that when Mojica was stopped while driving the Nissan Maxima, he was stopped not for any traffic violation or the commission of any crime, but because officers believed that he had something to do with their narcotics surveillance. Essentially, Mojica was stopped solely to see if there were drugs in the bag. While money was eventually found, no narcotics were found in the car, nor was it known, at the time of the stop, that Mojica was operating the car without a valid driver’s license. Additionally, Luce testified that Mojica never told officers that there were narcotics inside the Burley Avenue address, never told officers that he got the money from the Burley Avenue address or from defendant, and never told officers that the money constituted the proceeds of narcotics.
Luce testified further on cross-examination that he could not see what was in the boxes defendant brought from 8521 South Burley Avenue to his truck. Moreover, Luce acknowledged that defendant’s activity of pulling his truck over and looking in his mirrors could be construed as normal activity. Regarding the eventual stop of defendant at the tollbooth, Luce stated that while he believed it occurred in Illinois, he was not certain and it could have been in Indiana. He also stated that the stop was not carried out to give defendant a traffic ticket but was actually carried out because of Luce’s belief that surveillance was compromised and officers were conducting a drug investigation.
Luce testified that while he could smell cannabis when he approached defendant’s truck, he did not actually see the cannabis until he opened the boxes inside the truck. Luce testified that the boxes were opened without obtaining defendant’s consent. Moreover, Luce stated that before he opened the boxes, and even before he read defendant his rights, he asked defendant what was inside. Luce also testified, though, that before asking defendant what was in the boxes he told defendant that the police were pulling him over because they believed that a narcotics transaction occurred.
On cross-examination, the defense asked several questions and Luce testified extensively regarding the eventual search of the Burley Avenue address. This testimony was unaltered from Luce’s testimony regarding the home search on direct examination. Luce stated that officers brought defendant back to the Burley Avenue address, explained the consent-to-search form to defendant, one of the officers read the form to defendant, Officer Luce filled out the form, and then defendant signed it. Luce testified that he and the officers did not immediately knock on the front door of 8521 South Burley Avenue upon arriving, instead waiting until after defendant had already signed the consent-to-search form.
The parties stipulated to the testimony of another officer who took part in the investigation. Detective Schnoor would have testified that he saw the boxes that were eventually found to contain cannabis being taken out of 8521 South Burley Avenue one at a time by defendant. Moreover, he would have testified that in taking those boxes out defendant looked up and down the street, conduct which he believed indicative of people transporting narcotics. It was also stipulated, however, that this type of behavior could be seen in law-abiding citizens as well.
On October 1, 2003, the motion to quash and suppress came up for argument. Before argument was heard, though, the parties additionally stipulated that private investigator Joe Carone would testify he photographed the tollbooth where defendant was arrested, which was 0.8 miles from the Illinois border, inside Indiana. Defendant argued not only that the arrest at the tollbooth was improper, but also that defendant’s later consent to search was involuntarily given. Defendant contended, while arguing before the trial court, that “[i]f the initial stop is bad everything that happens after that stop is bad, including the consent form, the alleged smell and the stop in the other state, all of that falls.” The State, by contrast, argued that the anonymous tip, the suspicious driving between two houses multiple times in one day, the fact that $80,000 was recovered from Mojica, and defendant’s conduct which officers believed to be countersurveillance, taken together, amounted to probable cause. Considering these arguments, and after making specific factual findings, the trial court agreed with the State that officers had probable cause to arrest defendant and denied defendant’s motion.
On October 28, 2003, defendant filed another motion to suppress, this time specifically referring only to the evidence seized as a result of the search at defendant’s residence at 8521 South Burley Avenue. No hearing was held on this motion. The motion was again presented, however, on March 8, 2004, in tandem with defendant’s motion to vacate the trial court’s earlier denial of defendant’s motion to suppress evidence. The March 8 motion, presented in a single document, asked the trial court to enter orders: “A. Vacating the order entered October 01, 2003, denying the defendant’s motion to suppress; B. Holding an evidentiary hearing on the defendant’s motion to suppress the items seized from his home on October 11; C. Granting the motion to suppress the items seized from the defendant’s home at 8521 South Burley, Chicago, Illinois on October 11, 2001.”
On June 8, 2004, the trial court heard argument regarding defendant’s March 8 motion to vacate and motion to suppress. Defendant asserted that the original motion to suppress, filed on July 23, 2002, and denied by the trial court on October 1, 2003, “concerned itself only solely and exclusively with the search of the car and [defendant’s] arrest and probable cause for his arrest. It did not concern itself in any way with the search *** later that day of defendant’s home.” Defendant contended that the issue of the search at defendant’s home had never been litigated or ruled upon. Defendant acknowledged, though, that the trial court previously denied the motion to quash and suppress with respect to the search of defendant’s car and his arrest.
Supporting the new motion, defendant asserted that the arrest was illegal because it took place in Indiana. Defendant asserted that pursuant to Indiana statutory law, after Chicago police officers arrested defendant, they were required to take defendant before a judge of the Indiana county in which the arrest was made for a bond hearing. Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—2 (Michie 1998). Because that was not done in this case, defendant contended his arrest was invalid. Based on this argument, defendant asked the trial court to vacate the original denial of the motion to suppress and grant the motion to suppress.
In response, the State acknowledged that defendant should have been brought before an Indiana judge for a bond hearing. The State argued, though, that the failure to do so was harmless and for the trial court “to suppress any evidence recovered by the police officers including a consent to search, including all the cannabis that was found in defendant’s vehicle, including all of the evidence that was found at the address [in] Illinois is too harsh for the circumstances in this case.” The State asserted that the trial court already heard all of the arguments defendant made in this motion in the previous motion, specifically noting that the trial court heard arguments about the legality of defendant’s arrest in Indiana when it considered defendant’s first motion to suppress. Accordingly, the State requested the trial court to again deny defendant’s motion.
The trial court noted that it was undisputed that the arrest in this case took place in Indiana. The court then pointed out that Indiana was not afforded, as required by Indiana statute, the opportunity to determine whether there was probable cause for defendant’s arrest. Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—2 (Michie 1998). Moreover, extradition procedures required by Indiana statute were not followed. Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—2 (Michie 1998). In light of the above, the trial court vacated its denial of the original motion to quash and suppress and granted defendant’s new motion to quash and suppress the evidence in Indiana. Having done this, the court set a future date for a hearing on the motion regarding the search of the Burley Avenue address. This hearing was never held, though, as the trial court went back on the record the same day, June 8, 2004, and granted the motion to suppress with regards to the evidence obtained at the Burley Avenue address. The trial court noted that the information retrieved at 8521 South Burley Avenue resulted from the “wrongful detention in bringing [defendant] back across the state line,” which was the same basis the court utilized in granting defendant’s motion to vacate.
With this factual and procedural background in mind, we turn to our analysis.
ANALYSIS
In its petition for leave to appeal, the State presents two arguments. First, the State asserts that an Illinois court need not inquire into extradition irregularities for crimes committed within Illinois’ borders, as such irregularities affect neither the guilt nor the innocence of the accused, nor the jurisdiction of the Illinois court to try a defendant. Second, the State contends that exclusion is not the appropriate remedy in this case. As the facts are not in dispute and these arguments present questions of law, review is de novo. People v. McCarty, 223 Ill. 2d 109, 148 (2006).
A. Procedural Issues
Before addressing the State’s arguments, we first address several procedural arguments. Defendant asserts that the State’s position is essentially that an individual arrestee may not contest the validity of the arrest and postarrest procedures visited upon him. Defendant contends that this argument was not presented to the trial court by the State and thus is forfeited. People v. O’Neal, 104 Ill. 2d 399, 407 (1984). In a similar vein, defendant argues that the State never presented argument regarding the law of extradition in the trial court, and thus any reliance on such law is also forfeited. Additionally, defendant asserts that the State failed to argue the good-faith doctrine before the trial court or the appellate court, and, accordingly, argument on that point is forfeited as well.
The State asserts that it has sufficiently preserved its claims to survive forfeiture. First, the State argues that defendant mischaracterizes its argument. The State contends that its argument is not premised upon standing, but on the position that irregularities in extradition affect neither the guilt nor the innocence of a defendant, nor the jurisdiction of the court to try him. Defendant, in arguing before the trial court, specifically referenced the extradition clause of the United States Constitution and asserted that in this case, Chicago police officers essentially acted as “kidnappers when they took [defendant] from Indiana back in Illinois.” The State also specifically referred to the extradition clause before the trial court and argued that the officers’ failure to adhere to Indiana’s postarrest statutory procedures was harmless and did not deprive the trial court of jurisdiction to consider the case. Like the parties, the trial court referred to the extradition clause, noting that “what was skipped in this case was the fact that there was no extradition hearing *** we have skipped the extradition proceedings in Indiana and I feel that that is determinative in this case of the law that should be applied.”
Likewise, the State claims that defendant mischaracterizes its argument regarding good faith. The State asserts that it is not arguing for a good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule. Instead, it is the State’s position that the officers in this case did not intentionally ignore Indiana’s statutory scheme and thus the exclusionary rule should never even be invoked. According to the State, exclusion is unwarranted in this case based upon the deterrent effect/detriment to society considerations necessary to deciding if the rule should be invoked in the first place. See, e.g., Hudson v. Michigan, 547 U.S. 586, 591, 165 L. Ed. 2d 56, 64, 126 S. Ct. 2159, 2163 (2006) (explaining that the exclusionary rule should only be applied where its deterrence benefits outweigh its substantial social costs); People v. Coleman, 227 Ill. 2d 426 (2008) (where this court noted that if the main purpose of the exclusionary rule is to deter future police misconduct the interests of justice are not served by suppressing electronic surveillance gathered pursuant to federal law in contravention of state law, unless there is evidence of collusion to avoid the state law requirements). The State points out that arguments regarding good faith were presented in the trial court, the appellate court, and in the petition for leave to appeal in this court. Indeed, both the trial and appellate court referenced good faith in their decisions, with the trial court making its decision “regardless of the good faith of the officers” and the appellate court asserting that “Chicago police officers blatantly disregarded” portions of Indiana’s fresh pursuit statute. 367 Ill. App. 3d at 881.
This court has considered the purpose of the forfeiture rule repeatedly, noting:
“ 1 “Failure to raise issues in the trial court denies that court the opportunity to grant a new trial, if warranted. This casts a needless burden of preparing and processing appeals upon appellate counsel for the defense, the prosecution, and upon the court of review. Without a post-trial motion limiting the consideration to errors considered significant, the appeal is open-ended. Appellate counsel may comb the record for every semblance of error and raise issues on appeal whether or not trial counsel considered them of any importance.” ’ ” People v. Lewis, 223 Ill. 2d 393, 400 (2006), quoting People v. Enoch, 122 Ill. 2d 176, 186 (1988), quoting People v. Caballero, 102 Ill. 2d 23, 31-32 (1984).
It is apparent in this case that while the State’s arguments regarding extradition and good faith were not as extensively made or fully developed in the lower courts as they are before this court, they were raised and considered. As such, it would not serve the purposes of the forfeiture rule to apply it under these circumstances and we will not do so.
Defendant also contends that this case involves two separate and independent searches, one of defendant’s truck and one of the Burley Avenue address. Defendant asserts that the State’s notice of appeal was limited to the quashing of defendant’s arrest and the search of his car, and thus this court lacks the jurisdiction to determine the validity of the search of the Burley Avenue address. Defendant points out that Supreme Court Rule 604(a)(1) (210 Ill. 2d R. 604(a)(1)) provides that the State has the right to appeal from the denial of a motion to suppress and Supreme Court Rule 606 (210 Ill. 2d R. 606) provides that the filing of a notice of appeal is jurisdictional.
This case does involve two separate searches. However, this does not establish that the validity of the search at the Burley Avenue address presents a question beyond this court’s jurisdiction. The record establishes that the trial court was presented with extensive evidence and testimony regarding the search at 8521 South Burley Avenue. Both parties discussed the search of the home at the evidentiary hearing and both parties referenced it in making arguments. Defendant’s original motion to quash and suppress was broadly written and specifically asked that all “knowledge and fruits *** and products” of his arrest and detention be suppressed. Moreover, defendant argued that during his arrest and subsequent detention, the State “became aware of the existence of physical evidence all the direct and indirect fruits of the arrest and detention, which connect petitioner with the instant offense.” The evidence found at the Burley Avenue address constitutes the fruits and products of defendant’s arrest, just as it connects petitioner with the offenses charged.
The fact that defendant later filed a second motion to suppress, this time only referencing the home search, does not alter that fact that the home search was at issue and considered in the first motion to suppress. Considering this, it is not surprising that the trial court did not hold another evidentiary hearing and did not specifically consider the second motion to suppress filed on October 28, 2003, as it seems merely to constitute an attempt to revive a portion of the previously ruled upon motion. The trial court’s discussion of defendant’s later motion to vacate and motion to suppress, filed on March 8, 2004, supports this position. After granting the motion to vacate on June 8, 2004, the trial court initially set a later date to argue the motion to suppress. Instead of waiting until a later date, however, the trial court went back on the record that same day and granted the motion to suppress the evidence seized at 8521 South Burley Avenue. In so doing, the trial court pointed out that the information retrieved at 8521 South Burley Avenue resulted from the “wrongful detention in bringing [defendant] back across the state line,” which was the same basis the court utilized in granting defendant’s motion to vacate.
Our conclusion that this court has jurisdiction to consider the validity of the house search is further supported by the State’s notice of appeal. The notice of appeal referenced two dates of judgment or order: June 8, 2004, and July 21, 2004. As already discussed, the trial court granted defendant’s motion to vacate, thus granting defendant’s first filed motion to suppress (which we find included the evidence seized at the house search), on June 8, 2004. On the same date, the trial court granted defendant’s motion to suppress evidence seized at 8521 South Burley Avenue. The July 21, 2004, date references the trial court’s denial of the State’s motion to reconsider the June 8 ruling. In its motion to reconsider, the State specifically asked the trial court to “reconsider its rulings on June 8, 2004, to reinstate its findings that there was probable cause to arrest Defendant and that the cannabis from Defendant’s vehicle was properly seized, and to find that the evidence seized from the Burley address resulted from a voluntary and properly obtained consent to search.” Accordingly, the State’s notice of appeal adequately referred to the home search.
In light of the above, we find that the State complied with this court’s rules and we will consider the validity of the search of the Burley Avenue address. As already noted, we do not find any of the State’s argument forfeited and will consider the State’s arguments concerning extradition and good faith. Finding that the State has adequately preserved its arguments, we turn to the merits.
B. Merits
The two Indiana statutory sections primarily at issue in this case comprise portions of Indiana’s Uniform Act on Fresh Pursuit. The first section (Ind. Code Ann. §35— 33 — 3—1 (Michie 1998)), entitled “Fresh pursuit — Peace officers of other states — Authority to arrest in Indiana,” provides:
“Any member of a duly organized state, county, or municipal peace unit of another state who enters this state in fresh pursuit, and continues within this state in such fresh pursuit of a person in order to arrest him on ground that he is believed to have committed a felony in the other state, shall have the same authority to arrest and hold such person in custody as has any law enforcement officer of this state to arrest and hold in custody a person on the ground that he is believed to have committed a felony in this state.”
The second section, Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—2 (LexisNexis 1998), entitled “Arrest — Hearing—Commitment or discharge,” provides:
“If an arrest is made in this state by an officer of another state in accordance with the provisions of section 1 of this chapter, he shall, without unnecessary delay, take the person arrested before a judge of the county in which the arrest was made. The judge shall conduct a hearing for the purpose of determining the lawfulness of the arrest. If the judge determines that the arrest was lawful, he shall commit the person arrested to await for a reasonable time the issuance of an extradition warrant by the governor of this state. If the judge determines that the arrest was unlawful, he shall discharge the person arrested.”
The trial and appellate courts found that because the Chicago police officers did not comply with the second statutory section, Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—2 (Lexis-Nexis 1998), they were not authorized to arrest defendant and thus the evidence against him must be suppressed.
I. The State’s Position
The State points out that in Gerstein v. Pugh, 420 U.S. 103, 111, 43 L. Ed. 2d 54, 63, 95 S. Ct. 854, 861 (1975), the United States Supreme Court found that “the standards and procedures for arrest and detention have been derived from the Fourth Amendment and its common-law antecedents.” Moreover, this court has recognized that at common law police officers had the authority to arrest a defendant outside the territorial limits of the political entity which appointed them to their office when the officers were in fresh pursuit of a felon or a suspected felon fleeing that jurisdiction. People v. Lahr, 147 Ill. 2d 379, 382 (1992). According to the State, Indiana’s Uniform Act on Fresh Pursuit merely codifies the common law principle authorizing felony fresh pursuit extraterritorial arrest which has already been codified in the fourth amendment.
The State asserts that it complied with the fourth amendment in this case. The State points out that the trial court initially denied defendant’s motion to quash and suppress after a full evidentiary hearing, considering extensive testimony regarding defendant’s arrest, the search of his car, and the search of the Burley Avenue address. Upon reconsidering its rulings, the trial court never questioned the court’s initial findings, this time only altering its ultimate legal conclusion based upon defendant’s statutory argument. Likewise, the appellate court limited its consideration to the legal questions revolving around noncompliance with Indiana’s fresh pursuit statute and whether the proper remedy is suppression. 367 Ill. App. 3d at 879. According to the State, then, while Chicago police may not have complied with Indiana’s postarrest statutory procedures, their actions arresting defendant and seizing evidence against him clearly comport with the fourth amendment and its common law antecedents.
The State further points out that the arrest was substantively authorized by Indiana statute. In fact, the appellate court specifically noted that “[t]he parties agree that, in compliance with section 35 — 33—3—1 of Indiana’s fresh pursuit statute, the Chicago police were properly in fresh pursuit of defendant, whom the Chicago police believed had committed a felony.” 367 Ill. App. 3d at 880. Even in his brief before this court, defendant acknowledges the same, stating that he agrees “Chicago police officers had the authority to follow the defendant into the State of Indiana, and Indiana having adopted the Uniform Act on Fresh Pursuit, arrest him.”
According to the State, only section 35 — 33—3—2 of Indiana’s fresh pursuit statute was violated, and unless that provision is mandated by a component of the federal Constitution, noncompliance with the section has no bearing on the legitimacy of the arrest or the subsequent actions of the Chicago police and State of Illinois. The State asserts that because this is an Illinois prosecution, in an Illinois court, for offenses committed wholly within Illinois’ borders, and because the arrest complies with the fourth amendment, whether Illinois evaluates the matter with respect to Indiana’s statutory scheme presents a discretionary question premised upon principles of comity. Put simply, the State asserts that the Chicago police officers’ noncompliance with Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—2 (LexisNexis 1998) did not make defendant’s arrest unlawful.
The State points out that section 35 — 33—3—2 of Indiana’s fresh pursuit statute not only provides an arrestee with a probable cause hearing, but also serves to set forth the initial step in the extradition process which typically takes place in an interstate fresh pursuit scenario. In this case, the State acknowledges that by summarily removing defendant from Indiana and bringing him to Illinois to face prosecution, the Chicago officers bypassed the procedural mechanisms set forth in section 35 — 33—3—2, and indeed the entirety of the statute’s extradition proceedings. Nevertheless, the State argues that this did not offend the extradition clause or the prompt presentment requirements of the federal Constitution.
The extradition clause provides that “[a] Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.” U.S. Const., art. iy §2. The State points out, though, that a long line of United States Supreme Court precedent, known as the Ker-Frisbie doctrine, has established that irregularities in the extradition of a fugitive from justice for an otherwise constitutional prosecution “affects neither the guilt nor innocence of the accused, nor the jurisdiction of the court to try him.” Ker v. People, 110 Ill. 627, 637 (1884), aff’d, 119 U.S. 436, 30 L. Ed. 421, 7 S. Ct. 225 (1886); Frisbie v. Collins, 342 U.S. 519, 96 L. Ed. 541, 72 S. Ct. 509 (1952); United States v. Alvarez-Machain, 504 U.S. 655, 119 L. Ed. 2d 441, 112 S. Ct. 2188 (1992). In Mahon v. Justice, 127 U.S. 700, 712, 32 L. Ed. 283, 287, 8 S. Ct. 1204, 1211 (1888), the Supreme Court held that “the offender against the law of the State is not relieved from liability *** because of indignities committed against another state.” More recently, the Supreme Court, considering principles of federalism, noted that “an accused ‘should not be permitted to use the machinery of one sovereignty to obstruct his trial in the courts of the other, unless the necessary operation of such machinery prevents his having a fair trial.’ ” Wilson v. Schnettler, 365 U.S. 381, 385, 5 L. Ed. 2d 620, 624, 81 S. Ct. 632, 635 (1961), quoting Ponzi v. Fessenden, 258 U.S. 254, 260, 66 L. Ed. 607, 611, 42 S. Ct. 309, 310 (1922).
In the State’s view, the above makes clear that Illinois courts are not required to measure defendant’s arrest by the statutory overlays of Indiana’s postarrest procedural provision. The State asserts that if there is any affront in this case, it is to Indiana and not to defendant. Considering this, the State acknowledges that this court could elect to decline to exercise jurisdiction as a discretionary matter premised upon comity. The State argues, though, that this court should not do so in view of its longstanding adherence to the Ker-Frisbie doctrine, as well as the Supreme Court of Indiana’s adherence to the same. Ker, 110 Ill. 627; People v. Klinger, 319 Ill. 275, 278 (1925); People ex rel. Lehman v. Frye, 35 Ill. 2d 343 (1966); Massey v. State, 267 Ind. 504, 507, 371 N.E.2d 703, 705 (1978) (“A trial court’s jurisdiction does not depend upon the legality of [defendant’s] arrest or return to the wanting state”). Indeed, the State points out that the Supreme Court of Indiana has recognized that comity, in certain circumstances, should not be utilized so as to effect the release of a defendant based upon mere technicalities. Cozart v. Wolf, 185 Ind. 505, 512-13, 112 N.E. 241, 243 (1916).
Corollary to the above, the State points out that while defendant was not afforded a Gerstein hearing in Indiana as required by Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—2 (LexisNexis 1998), he was afforded a proper Gerstein hearing in Illinois. Such a hearing, mandated by the fourth amendment, affords a defendant arrested without a warrant prompt “judicial determination of probable cause as a prerequisite to extended restraint of liberty following arrest.” Gerstein, 420 U.S. at 114, 43 L. Ed. 2d at 65, 95 S. Ct. at 863. Since a Gerstein hearing was held, then, the State contends that the fact that the hearing did not take place in Indiana should render defendant’s arrest unlawful only if this court chooses to acknowledge and give effect to Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—2 (LexisNexis 1998) based upon principles of comity. For the reasons already discussed, the State argues against this. Moreover, the State points out that courts in other states have held that as long as a Gerstein hearing is properly held, what state it is held in is constitutionally insignificant. See Six Feathers v. State, 611 P.2d 857, 862 (Wyo. 1980); Weaver v. Commonwealth, 29 Va. App. 487, 513 S.E.2d 423 (1999).
In addition to the above arguments, the State asserts that the exclusionary rule is inapplicable to the facts of this case. The State notes that by its plain language, the fourth amendment “contains no provision expressly precluding the use of evidence obtained in violation of its commands.” Arizona v. Evans, 514 U.S. 1, 10, 131 L. Ed. 2d 34, 43, 115 S. Ct. 1185, 1191 (1995). The Supreme Court crafted the exclusionary rule as a “judicially created remedy” to “safeguard Fourth Amendment rights generally through its deterrent effect.” United States v. Calandra, 414 U.S. 338, 348, 38 L. Ed. 2d 561, 571, 94 S. Ct. 613, 620 (1974). The exclusionary rule is not reflexively applied. The Supreme Court has even stated that “[suppression of evidence *** has always been our last resort, not our first impulse.” Hudson, 547 U.S. at 591, 165 L. Ed. 2d at 64, 126 S. Ct. at 2163. Indeed, the rule is only applied where its deterrence benefits outweigh its substantial societal costs. Hudson, 547 U.S. at 591, 165 L. Ed. 2d at 64, 126 S. Ct. at 2163.
The State asserts that the exclusionary rule was designed to police federal constitutional violations rather than nonconstitutionally compelled state statutory violations, particularly where the arrest itself was constitutionally legitimate. See, e.g., United States v. Caceres, 440 U.S. 741, 59 L. Ed. 2d 733, 99 S. Ct. 1465 (1979) (considering a violation of IRS regulations which did not rise to the level of a constitutional violation and noting that “our precedents enforcing the exclusionary rule to deter constitutional violations provide no support for the rule’s application”). Additionally, the State points out that outside the mandatory reach of the federal constitutional exclusionary rule, the Supreme Court has found that “[t]he States are not foreclosed by the Due Process Clause from using a similar [cost/benefit] balancing approach to delineate the scope of their own exclusionary rules.” California v. Greenwood, 486 U.S. 35, 44-45, 100 L. Ed. 2d 30, 39-40, 108 S. Ct. 1625, 1631 (1988). This court has recognized this principle and utilized it in numerous instances. See, e.g., People v. DeMorrow, 59 Ill. 2d 352, 354 (1974) (“whether or not any given search and seizure is unconstitutional, as violative of the fourth *** amendment ], as a matter of substantive law, is to be decided by the pronouncements of the United States Supreme Court. *** The decision of what State courts may deem to be admissible in their systems according to their laws of evidence is an entirely separate question”); People v. Willis, 215 Ill. 2d 517, 532 (2005) (exclusionary rule not applied where detention ran afoul of Gerstein, but confession voluntary); People v. Burnidge, 178 Ill. 2d 429 (1997) (exclusionary rule not applied because of violation of clergy/penitent evidentiary privilege); People v. Harris, 182 Ill. 2d 114 (1998) (exclusionary rule not applied where defendant was transferred from jail in violation of Illinois Habeas Corpus Act).
Considering the above, the State argues that not only is the application of the exclusionary rule not compelled by the federal Constitution, it is also not compelled by this state’s own exclusionary principles. The State points out that this court has noted that “there is no constitutional barrier, other than the fourth amendment, which precludes one jurisdiction from refusing to honor the standards of another relative to the validity of an arrest or search.” People v. Saiken, 49 Ill. 2d 504, 510 (1971). Moreover, precedent establishes a trend on the part of courts in other states not to invoke their exclusionary rules as a per se remedy in situations involving a constitutional extraterritorial arrest that also violated a statutory provision of a nonconstitutional dimension. See, e.g., People v. Porter, 742 P.2d 922 (Colo. 1987); State v. Pike, 642 A.2d 145 (Me. 1994); City of Kettering v. Hollen, 64 Ohio St. 2d 232, 416 N.E.2d 598 (1980); Frye v. Commonwealth, 231 Va. 370, 345 S.E.2d 267 (1986); State v. Barker, 143 Wash. 2d 915, 25 P.3d 423 (2001).
Applying the deterrence benefits/societal costs analysis of the exclusionary rule specifically, the State points out that the officers involved in this case were not even aware that they were in Indiana when they arrested defendant. Accordingly, the police officers did not violate Indiana’s statutory procedure for extradition out of disrespect for Indiana’s laws or territorial borders, but because defendant ran for the border. The State notes that the exclusionary rule is “calculated to prevent, not to repair.” Elkins v. United States, 364 U.S. 206, 217, 4 L. Ed. 2d 1669, 1677, 80 S. Ct. 1437, 1444 (1960). As such, the State argues that applying the exclusionary rule in this situation, involving inadvertent police action, would not act as a deterrent, as the officers would not even be aware of their error. Further, the State argues that applying the exclusionary rule would have substantial societal cost.
II. Defendant’s Position
Defendant agrees that Chicago police had the authority to follow defendant into Indiana and arrest him, citing Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—1 (Michie 1998). However, defendant disagrees with the State that officers were free to disregard Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—2 (Michie 1998). Supporting his position, defendant notes that in United States v. Di Re, 332 U.S. 581, 589, 92 L. Ed. 210, 217, 68 S. Ct. 222, 226 (1948), the Supreme Court stated that “in the absence of an applicable federal statute the law of the state where an arrest without warrant takes place determines its validity.”
Defendant points out that in Wyoming v. Houghton, 526 U.S. 295, 299-300, 143 L. Ed. 2d 408, 414, 119 S. Ct. 1297, 1300 (1999), the Supreme Court stated that to determine whether a governmental action violates the fourth amendment, courts must “inquire first whether the action was regarded as an unlawful search or seizure under the common law when the [fourth] Amendment was framed.” Defendant argues that examining the common law of arrest as it existed in Indiana before the adoption of the Uniform Act on Fresh Pursuit, it is clear that Chicago police would not have been able even to make an arrest pursuant to a lawful warrant in Indiana. Martin v. Newland, 196 Ind. 58, 61, 147 N.E. 141, 142 (1925) (“a warrant issued by a court in Illinois could not have any extraterritorial effect, and conferred no authority to arrest and imprison the petitioner in Indiana, without a warrant issued by a court or other proper officer of the State of Indiana”).
Defendant further argues that this court has rejected the position that Illinois police officers are free to disregard the statutes limiting their jurisdiction. Defendant points to People v. Lahr, where this court considered a situation where a defendant was arrested by a Sleepy Hollow, Illinois, police officer outside of Sleepy Hollow’s boundaries and held that the arrest powers of a law enforcement officer operating “ ‘outside of the respective police authorities’ area of jurisdiction’ ” are circumscribed and limited to those possessed by a citizen. Lahr, 147 Ill. 2d at 387.
Similarly, defendant points to People v. Carrera, 203 Ill. 2d 1 (2002), where this court considered a situation where Chicago police officers, after conducting surveillance, arrested a defendant in Franklin Park, Illinois. The defendant in Carrera asserted that Chicago police officers did not have the authority to arrest him outside the territorial limits of the City of Chicago. This court agreed, holding that “Illinois law is settled that the exclusionary rule is applicable where the police effectuate an extraterritorial arrest without appropriate statutory authority.” Carrera, 203 Ill. 2d at 11.
According to defendant, Lahr and Carrera refute the State’s argument that the existence of probable cause to arrest is the only requirement for a valid arrest. In defendant’s view, it is illogical to contend that a Sleepy Hollow, Illinois, police officer may not use his police arrest powers to arrest outside Sleepy Hollow, Illinois, and that a Chicago, Illinois, police officer may not make a valid arrest supported by probable cause in Franklin Park, Illinois, absent statutory authority, but that the same Chicago police officer has the authority to enter and make an arrest in Indiana and remove the arrestee to Illinois.
Considering the exclusionary rule and its application to the facts of this case, defendant points to Commonwealth v. Sadvari, 561 Pa. 588, 752 A.2d 393 (2000). In Sadvari, Pennsylvania state troopers stopped a speeding defendant less than a mile inside the State of Delaware, performed sobriety tests on the defendant which he failed, and then transported him back to Pennsylvania for chemical testing. The defendant moved to suppress the results of the chemical test, asserting that his arrest did not conform to the Delaware fresh pursuit statute, as a Delaware magistrate was not afforded the opportunity to consider the lawfulness of the arrest. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania held that because the Pennsylvania state troopers ignored Delaware’s statutory requirement that the defendant be brought before a Delaware court, “the arrest was illegal.” Sadvari, 561 Pa. at 598, 752 A.2d at 398. Additionally, in considering the remedy, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that “application of the exclusionary rule will serve primarily as a demonstration of comity to vindicate Delaware’s sovereignty in light of Pennsylvania’s incursion upon this important state interest. Suppression is also appropriate to encourage future compliance with Delaware’s procedures and, in a more general sense, to safeguard the individual right to be free from unlawful seizures.” Sadvari, 561 Pa. at 598-99, 752 A.2d at 399.
Additionally, defendant points to People v. Jacobs, 67 Ill. App. 3d 447 (1979), where our appellate court considered a situation where Illinois police obtained a warrant for a defendant’s arrest, pursued him into the State of Iowa, arrested him, and brought him back to Illinois, where he was extensively interrogated and eventually confessed. The Jacobs court held that the Illinois police officers had no authority to arrest the defendant, except that granted them by the uniform fresh pursuit law of the State of Iowa. Jacobs, 67 Ill. App. 3d at 449. That law, similar to Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—2 (Michie 1998), required out-of-state police officers, after effecting an arrest, to take the person arrested before an in-state magistrate for a Gerstein hearing, among other things. Jacobs, 67 Ill. App. 3d at 449-50. The Jacobs court held that because the mandates of Iowa’s fresh pursuit law were “blithely and summarily ignored,” the defendant’s later confessions stemmed from an illegal arrest and were inadmissible.
Further supporting his position, defendant cites United States v. Holmes, 380 A.2d 598 (D.C. App. 1977), where the District of Columbia Court of Appeals considered a situation where Maryland police officers arrested a defendant in the District of Colombia as he got off a bus from Maryland. While the defendant consented to return to Maryland, the court held that the consent was illegally procured and noted that “this court has heretofore made clear that such an arrest is valid only under authority of the Uniform Act on Fresh Pursuit.” (Emphasis in original.) Holmes, 380 A.2d at 600.
Substantively addressing the State’s argument concerning good faith, defendant asserts that the good-faith doctrine is limited to arrests and searches conducted pursuant to a warrant. Defendant’s argument on this point is brief. Defendant points out that the Supreme Court has stated that “ [reasonable minds frequently may differ on the question whether a particular affidavit establishes probable cause, and we have thus concluded that the preference for warrants is most appropriately effectuated by according ‘great deference’ to a magistrate’s determination.” United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897, 914, 82 L. Ed. 2d 677, 693, 104 S. Ct. 3405, 3416 (1984). Moreover, citing to People v. Turnage, 162 Ill. 2d 299, 308 (1994), defendant points out that this court has stated that “[t]he Leon Court was careful to limit the contours of its ruling.” Additionally, defendant asserts that the subjective beliefs of an arresting officer are irrelevant with regard to establishing probable cause for a warrantless arrest. See Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806, 813, 135 L. Ed. 2d 89, 98, 116 S. Ct. 1769, 1774 (1996) (“Subjective intentions play no role in ordinary, probable-cause Fourth Amendment analysis”).
III. Extradition Irregularities, the Exclusionary Rule, and the Facts of This Case
We agree with the State that defendant’s arrest should not be quashed nor the evidence against him suppressed. The Supreme Court has stated that to determine whether a governmental action violates the fourth amendment, courts must “inquire first whether the action was regarded as an unlawful search or seizure under the common law when the [fourth] Amendment was framed.” Houghton, 526 U.S. at 299-300, 143 L. Ed. 2d at 414, 119 S. Ct. at 1300. This does not mean, as defendant suggests, however, that we must examine the common law of arrest as it existed in Indiana before the adoption of the Uniform Act on Fresh Pursuit. Instead, as the State suggests, it means that we must examine the common law in place at the time of the enactment of the fourth amendment. As noted above, this court has already done this, stating, ££[a]t common law, municipal and county police officers had no authority to arrest a defendant outside the territorial limits of the political entity which appointed them to their office. The sole exception to this rule at common law was when the officers were in ‘fresh pursuit’ of a suspected felon fleeing that jurisdiction.” Lahr, 147 Ill. 2d at 382.
Here, the evidence clearly indicates that the Chicago police officers who eventually stopped defendant did so believing that he was engaged in drug trafficking and was attempting to escape. The Chicago police officers were thus in fresh pursuit of a person they suspected to be a fleeing felon. Pursuant to our analysis in Lahr, then, they had the common law authority to effect an arrest of that person outside the territorial limits of the political entity that appointed them. Additionally, there is no question, and defendant has even agreed, that the arrest that occurred in this case was substantively authorized by Indiana statute. See Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—1 (Michie 1998).
It is also worth noting that defendant’s sole fourth amendment argument before this court revolves around his contention that Chicago police violated Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—2 (Michie 1998). This is not surprising considering the procedural posture of this case. As already detailed, defendant’s first filed motion to suppress was very broad, requesting the trial court quash his arrest and suppress, among other things, the “ [physical evidence discovered and as a result of arrest and detention” and “[a]ll other knowledge and fruits *** and products of the arrest.” After holding a detailed evidentiary hearing and considering extensive argument on this motion, including evidence and argument regarding the home search, the trial court denied the motion to quash and suppress. Before this court, defendant advances no fourth amendment argument other than that based upon Indiana statute. Accordingly, if we find no fourth amendment violation based upon Indiana statute, there is no other basis argued for us to find such a violation. Defendant already advanced a variety of other fourth amendment based arguments in the trial court, lost those arguments, and no longer advances them on appeal.
The Illinois cases defendant cites do not settle this case as a matter of law. Lahr, Carrera, and Jacobs all involved situations distinguishable from this case. In Lahr, the defendant was not a fleeing felon and he was arrested by a police officer using his police authority outside of the territorial limits of the political entity which appointed him. Lahr, 147 Ill. 2d at 382, 386-87. This arrest was thus invalid. Lahr, 147 Ill. 2d at 386-87. In Carrera, the defendant was arrested by police officers utilizing a statute that was later declared void ab initio. Carrera, 203 Ill. 2d at 14-15. Accordingly, this court held that the defendant’s arrest was unlawful. Carrera, 203 Ill. 2d at 17. In Jacobs, it appears that police were not in fresh pursuit of the defendant, as he was arrested in Iowa a day after police had already interrogated and released him. Jacobs, 67 Ill. App. 3d at 448. Accordingly, the actual arrest at issue in the Jacobs case may have been invalid even without considering postarrest irregularities. Jacobs, 67 Ill. App. 3d at 449. Additionally, the appellate court in Jacobs noted that its decision in that case may well have been based upon entirely different reasoning. Jacobs, 67 Ill. App. 3d at 449 (“It may well be that in spite of having received Miranda warnings the totality of the circumstances, to-wit, the defendant’s age, I.Q., reading level, circumstances of his arrest, the deprecatory advice as to need of counsel, the minimization as to the seriousness of the crime of murder by a minor, and the police officer’s offer to help the defendant in any way he could, when considered in their entirety, might well require the suppression of all statements made by the defendant during his interrogation session with the law enforcement authorities of Rock Island County”). Unlike the present case, then, Lahr, Carrera and Jacobs, all involved situations where defendant’s arrest occurred under very different circumstances than those present here.
Defendant’s citation to the Holmes decision is similarly distinguishable. While the District of Columbia Court of Appeals touched upon the magistrate provision of Maryland’s fresh pursuit statute similar to the statutory provision at issue in this case, it was also questionable whether the defendant’s arrest was valid. Holmes, 380 A.2d at 600 (noting that the trial court’s basis for suppressing evidence included the fact that “Holmes was arrested without probable cause ***. Police failed to present Holmes to a District of Columbia court in accord with statutory provisions. There was ineffective inquiry into Holmes’ understanding of his rights. Holmes was intensively interrogated for some four hours in the middle of the night ***. In sum, the police created and exploited circumstances which resulted in legally inadmissible statements”). Moreover, the court’s ultimate conclusion in the case was based upon its finding that the trial court properly found that the defendant’s consent to leave the District without a hearing and extradition was involuntary. Holmes, 380 A.2d at 602. As such, none of the cases defendant cites settle the question at issue in this case, that being whether one state’s noncompliance with another state’s postarrest procedural statute makes a defendant’s arrest unlawful where it would otherwise be completely lawful.
While this court has held that “Illinois law is settled that the exclusionary rule is applicable where the police effectuate an extraterritorial arrest without appropriate statutory authority” (Carrera, 203 Ill. 2d at 11), it has never considered the situation involved here, where Illinois authorities validly arrested a defendant but failed to comply with another state’s statutory postarrest procedural requirements by failing to present that defendant to a magistrate in the other state for the determination of probable cause and a formal beginning of the extradition process. Courts in other states have considered this question and come to different conclusions.
Some courts have considered situations involving constitutional extraterritorial arrests that also violated a nonconstitutional statutory provision of a foreign state and been unwilling to invoke the exclusionary rule as a remedy. See State v. Dentler, 742 N.W.2d 84, 90 (Iowa 2007) (considering the magistrate provision of Missouri’s version of the uniform fresh pursuit statute almost identical to that at issue in this case and refusing to apply the exclusionary rule, characterizing the violation as “a statutory violation that does not involve fundamental rights, constitutional overtones, or false representations of law or other similar police misconduct”); State v. Ferrell, 218 Neb. 463, 468, 356 N.W.2d 868, 871 (1984) (considering the magistrate provision of Iowa’s version of the uniform fresh pursuit statute almost identical to that at issue in this case and refusing to apply the exclusionary rule finding that the statutory violation did not affect the validity of the arrest or amount to a due process violation); State v. Bond, 98 Wash. 2d 1, 14, 653 P.2d 1024, 1032 (1982) (en banc) (refusing to exclude evidence in a situation where a defendant was arrested by Washington officers in Oregon and removed to Washington without presentation to an Oregon magistrate as statutorily required and noting that “[t]he improper interstate rendition was merely incidental to the arrest and represented no new intrusion into defendant’s privacy. It represented more of an affront to the rights of the State of Oregon than of the defendant”).
By contrast, as defendant describes in detail, other courts have applied the exclusionary rule in situations involving constitutional extraterritorial arrests that also violated a nonconstitutional statutory provision of a foreign state. See Sadvari, 561 Pa. at 588, 752 A.2d 393; Jacobs, 67 Ill. App. 3d 447; Holmes, 380 A.2d 598.
We find the analysis in Dentler, Ferrel, and Bond more persuasive than that found in Sadvari, Jacobs, and Holmes. We find particularly instructive the analysis utilized in Dentler, the most recent case to address this particular issue. After discussing Sadvari and Jacobs, as well as Ferrell and Bond, the Dentler court noted its commitment to the exclusionary rule. Dentler, 742 N.W2d at 87-88. Next, the Dentler court considered the probable cause for the defendant’s arrest and pointed out that while he was not brought before a Missouri magistrate, he was promptly taken before an Iowa judge and thus “afforded the opportunity to test the validity of his arrest before a neutral magistrate promptly after his arrest.” Dentler, 742 N.W.2d at 89. Accordingly, the Dentler court found that the defendant’s due process rights were not violated. Dentler, 742 N.W.2d at 89. The court thus found that the main issue in the case was “whether a violation of Missouri statutory law warrants exclusion of evidence” in Iowa. Dentler, 742 N.W.2d at 89.
Considering that issue, the Dentler court first asked whether the Missouri statute specifically required the exclusion of evidence and found that it did not. Dentler, 742 N.W.2d at 89. Next, the court asked whether the Missouri statute involved a fundamental right of the defendant. Dentler, 742 N.W2d at 89. Likewise, the court found that it did not, pointing out that the main purpose of the magistrate provision was to vindicate the rights of Missouri not the rights of an individual defendant. Dentler, 742 N.W.2d at 89 (“To the extent an ox is being gored in this case, it belongs to Missouri, not Dentler. *** Ordinarily, a party seeking to invoke the exclusionary rule may not vicariously assert the rights of another”). Following this, and perhaps in a nod to principles of comity, the court noted that the defendant made no argument that there existed a fundamental public policy difference between Missouri and Iowa which militated in favor of exclusion. Dentler, 742 N.W2d at 89. Finally, the court considered and rejected the concern that without applying the exclusionary rule to the situation at issue there would be insufficient deterrence to avoid future similar violations by Iowa police of Missouri statutory law. Dentler, 742 N.W.2d at 90. In so doing, the court stated:
“Because the benefits of violating the magistrate provision are so small, however, the incentive for future violations is not very high. If we are proven wrong in this assessment, the Missouri legislature may withdraw its authorization of Iowa peace officers to engage in fresh pursuit. Further, because this opinion is narrowly based on the unique facts of this case, law enforcement officials have no certainty that the exclusionary rule will be held inapplicable under a different state of facts, particularly where the record demonstrates willful misconduct. Finally, in the unlikely event that such violations become a recurrent problem, this court reserves the right to exercise its supervisory powers to exclude the evidence in future cases. [Citations.]” Dentler, 742 N.W2d at 90.
As in Dentler, aside from the fact that Chicago police failed to comply with the magistrate provision of Indiana’s fresh pursuit statute, defendant’s arrest was valid. Defendant’s arrest complied with the fourth amendment, its common law antecedents, and Indiana statute. Likewise, while defendant was not brought before an Indiana magistrate, he was promptly taken before an Illinois judge and thus afforded the opportunity to promptly test the validity of his arrest before a neutral magistrate. Accordingly, defendant’s due process rights were not violated. See Six Feathers, 611 P.2d at 862; Weaver, 29 Va. App. 487, 513 S.E.2d 423. The main issue, then, is whether the Chicago police officer’s noncompliance with Indiana’s postarrest procedural statute makes defendant’s arrest unlawful when it would otherwise be completely lawful. In other words, we must consider whether a violation of Indiana statutory law, particularly Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—2 (Michie 1998), mandates the exclusion of evidence in Illinois.
We do not believe that the violation of Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—2 (Michie 1998) mandates the exclusion of the evidence arrayed against defendant. First, the statutory language itself does not mandate exclusion or even mention it. People v. Jones, 223 Ill. 2d 569, 580-81 (2006) (“The fundamental rule of statutory construction is to ascertain and give effect to the legislature’s intent. [Citation.] *** The best indication of legislative intent is the statutory language, given its plain and ordinary meaning”). Next, the Indiana statute, under the facts of this case, does not involve a fundamental right of defendant.
Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—2 (Michie 1998) appears to have two main purposes. First, the statute provides an arrestee with a probable cause hearing in Indiana. The fact that defendant had the hearing in Illinois rather than Indiana does not constitute a constitutional violation, however. See Dentler, 742 N.W2d at 89; Six Feathers, 611 P.2d at 862; Weaver, 29 Va. App. 487, 513 S.E.2d 423. Second, the statute sets forth the initial step in the extradition process. Again, that Chicago police ignored the extradition process in this case does not constitute a constitutional violation. The Ker-Frisbie doctrine has established that irregularities in the extradition of a fugitive from justice for an otherwise constitutional prosecution “affects neither the guilt nor innocence of the accused, nor the jurisdiction of the court to try him.” Ker, 110 Ill. at 637, aff’d, 119 U.S. 436, 30 L. Ed. 421, 7 S. Ct. 225; Frisbie, 342 U.S. 519, 96 L. Ed. 541, 72 S. Ct. 509; Matta-Ballesteros v. Henman, 896 F.2d 255, 260 (7th Cir. 1990) (“For the past 100 years, the Supreme Court has consistently held that the manner in which a defendant is brought to trial does not affect the ability of the government to try him”). In addition to the above, we note that to the extent that any fundamental rights are implicated by Ind. Code Ann. §35 — 33—3—2 (LexisNexis 1998), they are not the rights of defendant but the rights of Indiana. Dentler, 742 N.W.2d at 89; Ferrell, 218 Neb. at 468, 356 N.W2d at 872; see also Rakas v. Illinois, 439 U.S. 128, 148, 58 L. Ed. 2d 387, 404, 99 S. Ct. 421, 433 (1978) (a party generally may not vicariously assert the rights of another when seeking to invoke the exclusionary rule); Alderman v. United States, 394 U.S. 165, 174, 22 L. Ed. 2d 176, 187, 89 S. Ct. 961, 966-67 (1969) (same).
Considering the exclusionary rule itself, we note that the Supreme Court has stated that “ [suppression of evidence *** has always been our last resort, not our first impulse,” and applied the rule only where its deterrence benefits outweigh its substantial societal costs.1 Hudson, 547 U.S. at 591, 165 L. Ed. 2d at 64, 126 S. Ct. at 2163. This court, in discussing the rule, has stated:
“[T]he exclusionary rule that accompanies the fourth amendment has no constitutional footing. Instead, it is a judicially created, prudential remedy that prospectively protects fourth amendment rights by deterring future police misconduct. [Citations.] Its application has been trimmed to instances where its remedial objectives will be most effectively served. [Citation.] That is, it applies only where its deterrent benefits outweigh its substantial social costs.” Willis, 215 Ill. 2d at 531-32.
Indeed, we have recognized that “[t]he State does not violate the fourth amendment when it introduces evidence obtained in violation of the fourth amendment. [Citation.] Rather, a fourth amendment violation is ‘fully accomplished’ by the illegal search or seizure, and excluding evidence cannot undo the invasion of the defendant’s rights.” Willis, 215 Ill. 2d at 531. As such, in Willis this court refused to apply the exclusionary rule in a situation where the fourth amendment was actually violated. See Willis, 215 Ill. 2d 517. By contrast, in this case, there was no constitutional violation and exclusion is even less warranted. Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon, 548 U.S. 331, 349, 165 L. Ed. 2d 557, 577, 126 S. Ct. 2669, 2681 (2006) (statutory violations only remotely related to the gathering of evidence do not ordinarily trigger application of the exclusionary rule).
The deterrence benefits/societal costs analysis supports this position. Here, the Chicago police officers involved were not even aware that they were in Indiana when they arrested defendant. Accordingly, the arrest did not involve any police misconduct, willful disregard for the laws of Indiana or its territorial borders, or false representations of law designed to improperly obtain evidence. Additionally, as the Iowa Supreme Court recognized in Dentler, the benefits of violating another state’s statutory magistrate provision are so small, any incentive for future violations is low. Dentler, 742 N.W.2d at 90. While applying the exclusionary rule under the facts of this case would thus have little deterrent effect, it would have significant societal costs, as the State has already acknowledged that without the evidence against defendant, its case against him would be substantially impaired. As we have stated in the past, the exclusionary rule laudably secures constitutional rights through its deterrent effect but “also deflects criminal trials from their basic focus by erecting barriers between the jury and truthful, probative evidence.” Willis, 215 Ill. 2d at 532. Moreover, the Supreme Court has recognized the same, pointing out that its cases have “consistently recognized that unbending application of the exclusionary sanction to enforce ideals of governmental rectitude would impede unacceptably the truth-finding functions of judge and jury.” United States v. Payner, 447 U.S. 727, 734, 65 L. Ed. 2d 468, 476, 100 S. Ct. 2439, 2445 (1980).
While we choose not to apply the exclusionary rule in this case, we could elect to utilize it based upon principles of comity. Sadvari, 561 Pa. at 598-99, 752 A.2d at 398-99 (“We find, however, that the Delaware statute, with its directive that an out-of-state officer present the arrestee to a Delaware judicial tribunal for review of the lawfulness of an arrest conducted in Delaware, functions as more than merely an extradition statute, and that a contrary interpretation would render empty the mandate of the Delaware law. *** In this instance, application of the exclusionary rule will serve primarily as a demonstration of comity to vindicate Delaware’s sovereignty in light of Pennsylvania’s incursion upon this important state interest”). Not only has this court long adhered to the Ker-Frisbie doctrine, however, but so has the Indiana Supreme Court. In fact, in Massey v. Indiana, the Indiana Supreme Court specifically cited both Ker and Frisbie and stated that “[a] trial court’s jurisdiction does not depend upon the legality of [defendant’s] arrest or return to the wanting state.” Massey, 267 Ind. at 507, 371 N.E.2d at 705. Accordingly, we do not believe principles of comity require the application of the exclusionary rule in this case. Moreover, in light of its long adherence to the Ker-Frisbie doctrine, we believe it unlikely that the Indiana Supreme Court would find any differently were it faced with this situation in reverse.
With this opinion, we reaffirm our adherence to the Ker-Frisbie doctrine. Ker, 110 Ill. at 637, aff’d, 119 U.S. 436, 30 L. Ed. 421, 7 S. Ct. 225; Frisbie, 342 U.S. 519, 96 L. Ed. 541, 72 S. Ct. 509. This is not to say, however, that Illinois courts may completely ignore another state’s statutory scheme providing postarrest procedures for defendants who committed crimes within Illinois’ borders. To the contrary, in such situations courts should inquire into the facts of each case as well as the extraterritorial statutory provisions at issue. Indeed, that is exactly what we have done in this case. Based upon the particular facts and statutory provisions at issue in this case, then, we will not apply the exclusionary rule. We feel it important to point out, however, that law enforcement officials should not consider it a certainty that we will find the exclusionary rule inappropriate under a different set of facts, particularly in situations involving willful misconduct. Dentler, 742 N.W2d at 90.
CONCLUSION
We reverse the judgment of the appellate court affirming the decision of the trial court. We thus reinstate the trial court’s original determination that defendant’s motion to quash and suppress be denied and remand the cause to the circuit court for trial.
Reversed and remanded.
In discussing the exclusionary rule, we feel it worth mentioning that apart from his reference to Sadvari, 561 Pa. 588, 752 A.2d 393, defendant advances little substantive argument regarding the application of the exclusionary rule. Defendant does advance an argument concerning the good-faith doctrine and its application in situations where police are operating without a warrant. As we discussed when considering defendant’s procedural arguments, however, the State is not advocating the application of the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule. Rather, the State merely discusses the good faith of the Chicago police officers involved in this case in order to show that the exclusionary rule should never even apply. Accordingly, defendant’s argument on this point does not address the State’s position or affect our analysis.