People v. Hodge

Defendant, Vincent Hodge, was charged by indictment with two counts of unlawful use of a firearm by a felon. He filed a motion to suppress certain tape-recorded conversations for the failure of a Federal agent to comply with Illinois eavesdropping laws. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 38, pars. 14—1 et seq., 108A—1.) The trial court granted defendant’s motion, and the State now appeals.

At the suppression hearing, Mitchell Wido, a special agent with the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), testified that in December 1988 he began an investigation of defendant, a convicted…