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PEOPLE v. SHINKLE

No. 65992.

128 Ill.2d 480 (1989)

539 N.E.2d 1238

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. STEPHEN SHINKLE, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed May 24, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Terence M. Madsen, Assistant Attorney General, of Chicago, and Thomas V. Gainer, Jr., Kenneth T. McCurry, Inge Fryklund and James E. Fitzgerald, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Patrick G. Reardon and Stephen M. Connolly, both of Chicago, for appellee.

Appellate court reversed; circuit court affirmed.

JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court:

This cause requires us to reexamine those provisions of the Criminal Code of 1961 which regulate eavesdropping in Illinois (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 14-1 et seq.).

On July 12, 1983, the defendant, Stephen Shinkle, was indicted in the circuit court of Cook County for arson and conspiracy to...

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