The PEOPLE v. Maslowsky

This litigation is an outgrowth of the much publicized tape recordings procured by unknown persons secretly “bugging” a hotel room with electronic eavesdropping devices and tapping a telephone in the room.

Six persons were served with subpoenas to appear before a Sangamon County grand jury. They filed a petition to suppress certain tape recordings “and all transcripts, reproductions, or excerpts derived therefrom” for use as evidence before any grand jury or in any civil or criminal trial or in any administrative or legislative proceeding or inquiry ; to restrain the State’s Attorney of…