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Judge rules Illinois eavesdropping law unconstitutional

Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 4:58 AM

A blow to the police state: Judge rules Illinois eavesdropping law unconstitutional
Madison Ruppert, Saturday, March 3, 2012 Activist Post
“In a major victory for Americans who value liberty and the First Amendment, a Cook County, Illinois judge ruled that the state’s highly controversial eavesdropping law is unconstitutional.
The law made the simple act of recording a police officer without their consent, even during the course of their public duties, a felony offense.
Judge Stanley Sacks declared that the eavesdropping law is unconstitutional on the grounds that it has the potential to criminalize what would otherwise be “wholly innocent conduct.”
I couldn’t agree more, and it’s great to see that there are, in fact, some sane individuals still working in the American justice system…”
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/03/blow-to-police-state-judge-rules.html

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