People v. Kezerian

Mr. JUSTICE GEORGE J. MORAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

The State appeals from an order of the trial court suppressing various tape recordings and all evidence derived therefrom. The principal issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in finding that the State had not complied with the relevant provisions of the eavesdropping act in recording certain conversations of defendant Hrant Kezerian (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, eh. 38, par. 14 — 1 et seq.).

On October 21, 1975, special agent Robert Magnusen of the Illinois Bureau of Investigation informed Robert Rice, State’s Attorney of St.…