PEOPLE v. MUDGE

No. 5-85-0647.

143 Ill. App.3d 193 (1986)

492 N.E.2d 1050

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. THOMAS G. MUDGE, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois — Fifth District.

Opinion filed May 12, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Roma Jones-Stewart, Solicitor General, and Mark L. Rotert and David E. Bindi, Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Joseph Brown, Jr., of Lucco & Brown, of Edwardsville, for appellee.


Judgment affirmed.

JUSTICE STEIGMANN delivered the opinion of the court:

This case is an appeal by the State of the trial court's order prohibiting the State from using in its case in chief a tape-recorded statement of the defendant's, given by the defendant to his lawyer at the lawyer's direction. This statement was requested to enable the lawyer to prepare a defense to the murder charge the defendant faced. A transcription of the tape was thereafter given...

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