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PEOPLE v. RADOJCIC

Docket Nos. 114197, 114214 cons.

998 N.E.2d 1212 (2013)

2013 IL 114197

376 Ill. Dec. 279

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellee, v. Budimir RADOJCIC et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

November 21, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier , State Appellate Defender, Alan D. Goldberg , Deputy Defender, and Michael G. Soukup and Emily S. Wood , Assistant Appellate Defenders, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, of Chicago, for appellant Budimir Radojcic.

Leonard C. Goodman , Melissa A. Matuzak and Jacqueline Shiff , of Chicago, and Amanda Graham and Kathryn Kizer , law students, for appellant Mark Helfand.

Lisa Madigan , Attorney General, of Springfield, and Anita Alvarez , State's Attorney, of Chicago ( Michael A. Scodro , Solicitor General, and Michael M. Glick , David A. Simpson and Matthew P. Becker , Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

OPINION

Justice THEIS delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

¶ 1 At issue in this appeal is whether, pursuant to the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege, attorney Mark Helfand may testify regarding communications with Budimir Radojcic, a former client, at Radojcic's criminal trial. The circuit court of Cook County concluded that the State failed to meet its evidentiary burden for application of the exception, and struck...

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