People v. Johns

PRESIDING JUSTICE McBRIDE

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendants Matthew Johns, Damon Overall 1 and Ronald Chang were charged by indictment with drug offenses. Three days after Overall’s arrest, he filed a motion for protective order requesting preservation of any and all transmissions by the police communications section for a period of an hour and a half preceding the defendant’s arrest and 2½ hours following his arrest — from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the day of his arrest. On the same day the motion was filed, the trial court signed an order preserving the tape recordings of these…