People v. Eddington

The defendant, James Eddington, was indicted on August 8,1975, for solicitation and conspiracy to commit murder, three counts of delivering a controlled substance, and one count of delivering a substance represented to be controlled. The drug charges were subsequently severed. The trial court granted defendant’s motion in limine barring the use of tape recorded conversations between the defendant and Gregory Fife, an Illinois Bureau of Investigation informer. That order was reversed on appeal to this court in People v. Eddington (1977), 47 Ill. App. 3d 388, 362 N.E.2d 103.

On remand, defendant…