Woman who recorded cops acquitted of felony eavesdropping charges

August 25, 2011 -- Chicago Tribune, By Jason Meisner and Ryan Haggerty, Tribune reporters

Frustrated, Tiawanda Moore quietly flipped on the recorder on her BlackBerry as she believed that two Chicago police internal affairs investigators were trying to talk her into dropping her sexual harassment complaint against a patrol officer.

But Moore was the one who ended up in trouble — criminally charged with violating an obscure state eavesdropping law that makes audio recording of police officers without their consent a felony offense.

On Wednesday, though, a Criminal Court jury quickly repudiated the prosecution's case, taking less than an hour to acquit Moore on both eavesdropping counts. [continued...]

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This is another key excerpt from the article, making it all the more disgusting. They were prosecuting "her"?

In the recording, which the one juror said was replayed several times in the jury room, Alejo was heard explaining to Moore that she might be wasting her time because it was basically her word against that of the patrol officer. Alejo also said they could "almost guarantee" that the officer would never bother her again if she dropped the complaint.

It's good to see that there's some resistance mounting against these prosecutions.

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I did do a search before posting.

Nothing came up because no excerpt was posted from the article as should have been done.

But thanks.