People v. Eickhoff

This is an interlocutory appeal brought by the State pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 604(a)(1) (87 Ill. 2d R. 604(a)(1)) from an order entered on November 28, 1983, by the circuit court of Brown County suppressing evidence of defendant John Eickhoff’s refusal to take a polygraph examination and of his response to the investigator’s request that he do so. We affirm.

On May 27, 1983, defendant was indicted on four counts of arson (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 20 — 1), a Class 2 felony, for knowingly damaging by fire his real property, a farrowing house and a hog confinement building, and…