Illinois Supreme Court
Criminal Court
Right to Counsel
Defendant, while in Cook County Jail on unrelated matter, was charged with murder in shooting death. Defendant's statements to an inmate-informer were not "custodial interrogation", and thus police were not required to give Miranda warnings, and thus Defendant had no right to counsel during overhears. Police were not required to tell Defendant that attorney in the other matter was seeking access to him during first overhear. (KILBRIDE, THOMAS, GARMAN, BURKE, and THEIS, concurring.)