CHICAGO (AP) — A woman accused of eavesdropping for
secretly recording an interview with two Chicago police internal affairs
investigators has been acquitted of the charge.
Tiawanda Moore recorded the investigators while
filing a sexual harassment complaint against a Chicago police officer. The
20-year-old Indiana woman testified she did it because the investigators were
trying to convince her to not go file her complaint.
Moore claims the officer fondled her and gave her
his telephone number while on a domestic battery call.
Defense attorney Robert Johnson says Moore's action
was protected under an exemption in the Illinois Eavesdropping Act, which
allows recording of conversations without the consent of all parties when
someone believes a crime is being or about to be committed.
The jury took less than an hour Wednesday to acquit
Moore.
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2011 The Associated Press.
