(725 ILCS 5/108B-12) (from Ch. 38, par. 108B-12)
Sec. 108B-12.
Approval, notice, suppression.
(a) If an electronic
criminal surveillance officer, while intercepting a private
communication
in accordance with the provision of this Article, intercepts a private
communication that relates to an offense other than an
offense enumerated
in Section 108B-3 of the Act, or relates to an offense enumerated in Section
108B-3 but not specified in the order of authorization,
the State's Attorney,
or a person designated in writing or by law to act for him, may, in order
to permit the disclosure or use of the information under Section 108B-2a of
this Act, make a motion for an order
approving the interception. The chief judge of a court of competent
jurisdiction
shall enter an order approving the interception if he finds that at the
time of the application, there existed probable cause to believe that a
person whose private communication was
intercepted
was committing or
had committed an offense and the content of the communication relates to
that offense, and that the communication
was otherwise intercepted in accordance with the provisions of this Article.
(b) An intercepted private communication, or
evidence derived from
it, may not be received in evidence or otherwise disclosed in an official
proceeding unless each aggrieved person who is a party in the official
proceeding,
including any proceeding before a legislative, judicial, administrative
or other governmental agency or official authorized to hear evidence under
oath or other person taking testimony or depositions in any such proceeding,
other than a grand jury, has, not less than 10 days
before the official proceeding, been furnished with a copy of the court
order, and the accompanying application, under which the interception was
authorized or approved. The 10 day period may be waived by the presiding
official if he finds that it was not practicable to furnish the person with
the information 10 days before the proceeding, and that the person will
not be or has not been prejudiced by delay in receiving the information.
(c) An aggrieved person in an official proceeding may make a motion under
this Section to suppress the contents of an intercepted private
communication,
or evidence derived from it, on the grounds that:
(1) the communication was unlawfully intercepted;
(2) the order of authorization or approval under which it was intercepted is |
(d) If a motion under this Section duly alleges that the evidence sought
to be suppressed in an official proceeding, including a grand jury, has
been derived from an unlawfully intercepted private
communication,
and if the aggrieved person who is a party has not been served with notice
of the interception
under this Section, the opponent of the allegation shall, after conducting
a thorough search of its files, affirm or deny the occurrence of the alleged
unlawful interception, but no motion shall be considered if the alleged
unlawful interception took place more than 5 years before the event to
which the evidence relates.
(e) Where a motion is duly made under this Section prior to the appearance
of a witness before a grand jury, the opponent of the motion may make such
applications and orders as it has available to the chief judge of a court of
competent
jurisdiction in camera, and if the judge determines that there is no defect
in them sufficient on its face to render them invalid, the judge shall inform
the witness that he has not been the subject of an unlawful interception.
If the judge determines that there is a defect in them sufficient on its
face to render them invalid, he shall enter an order prohibiting any question
being put to the witness based on the unlawful interception.
(f) Motions under this Section shall be made prior to the official
proceeding
unless there was no opportunity to make the motion or unless the aggrieved
person who is a party was not aware of the grounds for the motion. Motions
by co-indictees
shall, on motion of the People, be heard in a single consolidated hearing.
(g) A chief judge of a court of competent jurisdiction, upon the filing of a
motion by an aggrieved person who is a party under this Section, except before
a grand
jury, may make available for inspection by the aggrieved person or his attorney
such portions of the intercepted private communications, applications and
orders
or the evidence derived from them as the judge determines to be in the interest
of justice.
(h) If a motion under this Section is granted, the intercepted private communication, and evidence derived from it, may not be received in
evidence in an official proceeding, including a grand jury.
(i) In addition to any other right of appeal, the People shall have the
right to appeal from an order granting a motion to suppress if the official
to whom the order authorizing the interception was granted certifies to
the court that the appeal is not taken for purposes of delay. The appeal
shall otherwise be taken in accordance with the law.
(Source: P.A. 92-854, eff. 12-5-02.)
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