People v. Lashmet

PRESIDING JUSTICE STEIGMANN

delivered the opinion of the court:

In February 2005, the State charged defendant, Mark J. Lashmet, with solicitation of murder for hire in that defendant (while he was incarcerated at the Cumberland County jail), with intent that first degree murder be committed, hired David J. Marr to murder Jimmie L. Cummins (720 ILCS 5/8 — 1.2 (West 2004)). In January 2006, defendant filed a motion to suppress incriminating statements he made to Marr while Marr was posing as a fellow inmate and acting on the State’s behalf. Following a hearing later in January 2006, the trial…