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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1674

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 1674  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN  ACT  to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963
 5    by adding Sections 115-10.4,  115-10.5,  115-10.6,  115-10.7,
 6    115-10.8, and 115-10.9."; and

 7    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 8    following:
 9        "Section 5.  The Code of Criminal Procedure  of  1963  is
10    amended  by  adding  Sections  115-10.4,  115-10.5, 115-10.6,
11    115-10.7, 115-10.8, and 115-10.9 as follows:

12        (725 ILCS 5/115-10.4 new)
13        Sec.  115-10.4.  When  statements  may   be   used.    No
14    statement  made  by  an  accused  as  a result of a custodial
15    interrogation is admissible as evidence against him or her in
16    any criminal proceeding unless it is shown by  an  electronic
17    audio and visual recording, which may include motion picture,
18    videotape, or other visual recording, that:
19        (a)  the accused, before making the statement, received a
20    warning that:
21             (1)  he  or  she  has the right to remain silent and
22        not make any statement at all and that any  statement  he
 
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 1        or she makes may be used against him or her at his or her
 2        trial;
 3             (2)  any  statement  he  or she makes may be used as
 4        evidence against him or her in court;
 5             (3)  he or she  has  the  right  to  have  a  lawyer
 6        present  to  advise  him  or  her  before  and during any
 7        questioning;
 8             (4)  if he or she is unable to employ a  lawyer,  he
 9        or she has the right to have a lawyer appointed to advise
10        him or her before and during any questioning; and
11             (5)  he  or  she  has  the  right  to  terminate the
12        interview at any time; and
13        (b)  the accused, before and during  the  making  of  the
14    statement,  knowingly,  intelligently, and voluntarily waived
15    the rights set out in the warning  prescribed  by  subsection
16    (a) of this Section.

17        (725 ILCS 5/115-10.5 new)
18        Sec.115-10.5.  Procedure.
19        (a)  No   statement  including  written,  oral,  or  sign
20    language statements of an accused  made  as  a  result  of  a
21    custodial  interrogation is admissible against the accused in
22    a criminal proceeding unless:
23             (1)  an electronic audio and visual recording, which
24        may include motion picture, video tape, or  other  visual
25        recording, is made of the custodial interrogation;
26             (2)  before  the  custodial interrogation but during
27        the  recording  the  accused  is  given  the  warning  in
28        subsection (a)  of  Section  115-10.4   and  the  accused
29        knowingly,  intelligently,  and  voluntarily  waives  any
30        rights set out in the warning;
31             (3)  the  recording  device was capable of making an
32        accurate recording, the operator was competent,  and  the
33        recording is accurate and has not been altered;
 
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 1             (4)  all voices on the recording are identified; and
 2             (5)  not later than the 30th day after the filing of
 3        charges,  the  attorney  representing  the  defendant  is
 4        provided  with a true, complete, and accurate copy of all
 5        recordings of the defendant made under this Section.
 6        (b)  Every electronic recording of any statement made  by
 7    an accused during a custodial interrogation must be preserved
 8    until such time as the defendant's conviction for any offense
 9    relating  to  the  statement is final, all direct appeals and
10    post-conviction proceedings therefrom are exhausted,  or  the
11    prosecution of the offenses is barred by law.
12        (c)  If  the  accused  is  a  deaf  person, the accused's
13    statement under Section 115-10.4 or subsection  (a)  of  this
14    Section  is  not  admissible  against  the accused unless the
15    warning in Section 115-10.4 is interpreted to the deaf person
16    by an interpreter who is qualified and sworn.
17        (d)  The courts of  this  State  must  strictly  construe
18    subsection   (a)  of  this  Section  and  may  not  interpret
19    subsection (a) as making admissible a  statement  unless  all
20    requirements  of  the  subsection  have been satisfied by the
21    State, except that:
22             (1)  only voices that are material  are  identified;
23        and
24             (2)  the accused was given the warning in subsection
25        (a)   of   Section   115-10.4   or  its  fully  effective
26        equivalent.

27        (725 ILCS 5/115-10.6 new)
28        Sec.  115-10.6.  Perjury.   When   any   statement,   the
29    admissibility  of  which  is  covered  by  Sections  115-10.4
30    through  115-10.9, is sought to be used in connection with an
31    official proceeding, any person who swears falsely  to  facts
32    and  circumstances which, if true, would render the statement
33    admissible  under  Sections  115-10.4  through  115-10.9   is
 
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 1    presumed  to  have  acted  with  intent  to  deceive and with
 2    knowledge of the  statement's  meaning  for  the  purpose  of
 3    prosecution for perjury.

 4        (725 ILCS 5/115-10.7 new)
 5        Sec. 115-10.7.  Exemptions.  Nothing in Sections 115-10.4
 6    through  115-10.9 precludes the admission of a statement made
 7    by the accused in open court at his or her  trial,  before  a
 8    grand  jury,  or  at a preliminary hearing, or of a statement
 9    that is the res gestae of the arrest or of the offense, or of
10    a statement that does not stem from custodial  interrogation,
11    or  of  a voluntary statement, whether or not the result of a
12    custodial  interrogation,  that  has  a  bearing   upon   the
13    credibility  of  the  accused  as  a witness, or of any other
14    statement that may be admissible under law.

15        (725 ILCS 5/115-10.8 new)
16        Sec. 115-10.8. Voluntariness of statement.
17        (a)  In all cases when a question is  raised  as  to  the
18    voluntariness  of  a  statement of an accused, the court must
19    make an independent finding in the absence of the jury as  to
20    whether the statement was made under voluntary conditions.
21        (b)  If  the  statement  has  been  found  to  have  been
22    voluntarily  made  and held admissible as a matter of law and
23    fact by the court in a hearing in the absence  of  the  jury,
24    the  court  must  enter an order stating its conclusion as to
25    whether or not the statement was voluntarily made, along with
26    the specific finding of facts upon which the  conclusion  was
27    based,  which  order  must  be  filed among the papers of the
28    cause.
29        (c)  The order may not be exhibited to the jury  nor  the
30    finding of the order made known to the jury in any manner.
31        (d)  Upon the finding by the judge as a matter of law and
32    fact  that  the  statement  was  voluntarily  made,  evidence
 
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 1    pertaining  to the matter may be submitted to the jury and it
 2    must be instructed that unless the  jury  believes  beyond  a
 3    reasonable doubt that the statement was voluntarily made, the
 4    jury  may  not consider the statement for any purpose nor any
 5    evidence obtained as a result of the statement.
 6        (e)  In any case when a motion to suppress the  statement
 7    has  been  filed and evidence has been submitted to the court
 8    on this issue, the court within its discretion may reconsider
 9    the  evidence  in  its  finding  that   the   statement   was
10    voluntarily made and the same evidence submitted to the court
11    at  the hearing on the motion to suppress must be made a part
12    of the record the same as if it were being presented  at  the
13    time  of  trial.  However, the State or the defendant must be
14    entitled to present any new evidence  on  the  issue  of  the
15    voluntariness  of  the  statement  before  the  court's final
16    ruling and order stating its findings.

17        (725 ILCS 5/115-10.9 new)
18        Sec.115-10.9.  Instructions to jury. When  the  issue  is
19    raised  by  the  evidence, the trial judge must appropriately
20    instruct the jury, generally, on the law  pertaining  to  the
21    statement.

22        Section  99.  Effective  date.   This  Act  takes  effect
23    January 1, 2000.".

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