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PEOPLE v. RICHARDSON

No. 46298.

60 Ill.2d 189 (1975)

328 N.E.2d 260

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. WILLIAM H. RICHARDSON, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed March 24, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (James B. Zagel, Assistant Attorney General, and Patrick T. Driscoll, Jr., Barry Rand Elden, and Kenneth L. Gillis, Assistant State's Attorneys, and Gregory J. Schlesinger and John J. Verscaj (law students), all of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

James J. Doherty, Public Defender, of Chicago (Gail Moreland, Ronald P. Alwin, Dale W. Broeder, and William Murphy, Assistant Public Defenders, and Robert B. Thompson (law student), of counsel), for appellee.

Reversed and remanded.

MR. JUSTICE SCHAEFER delivered the opinion of the court:

The sole issue on this appeal is the constitutionality of section 14-2 of the Criminal Code of 1961 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 38, par. 14-2), which permits eavesdropping if it is done with the consent of any one party to a conversation and at the request of a State's Attorney. The circuit court of Cook County declared section 14-2 unconstitutional...

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