Supreme Court of Illinois

Conviction for two counts of unlawful delivery of cocaine is affirmed where, when there is a joint federal and state investigation, evidence otherwise inadmissible under the Illinois eavesdropping statute may nevertheless be admitted if the recordings were lawfully obtained under federal law and if there is no official collusion seeking to avoid Illinois' stricter statutory requirement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/07/2008
• Published 02/07/2008

Judges

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey M. Brown, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, for appellant., Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Joseph E. Birkett, State's Attorney, Wheaton (Michael A. Scodro, Solicitor General, Michael M. Glick, Jay Paul Hoffmann, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, of counsel), for the People.