People v. Kezerian

The State appeals from a judgment of the appellate court (63 Ill. App. 3d 610) affirming the trial court’s suppression of certain tape recordings and testimony concerning the conversations recorded thereon. The issue is whether this evidence was inadmissible, as the trial and appellate courts held, because of an alleged failure by the State to comply with the exceptions to the relevant statutory provisions prohibiting eavesdropping. Those provisions are as follows:

“A person commits eavesdropping when he:(a) Uses an eavesdropping device to hear or record all or any part of any conversation…