Death, Deletion, and Marital Privilege Won’t Protect Incriminating Text Messages in the Second District

This blog post was written by HeplerBroom Summer Associate Weston T. Stoddard. A supervising partner also contributed to the post. In People v. Gliniewicz, 2020 IL App (2d) 190412, the Illinois Court of Appeals, Second District reversed the Lake County Circuit Court and held that Defendant, Melody Gliniewicz, voluntarily waived any marital privilege that would have […]