Posted on 03/28/2017 8:58:08 PM PDT by blueyon
good point!
It’s true. Dems have NO conscience whatsoever. They have become truly evil.
Political persecution.
You can record in CA if you believe whats being recorded is evidence of a crime.
PP is on tape admitting they broke laws.
CA is a LONG way from TX.
They will of course prosecute every reporter and news crew that uses secret camera filming and recording.......yes?
Unless they are filming Republicans.
>>>”will not tolerate the criminal recording of conversations.”<<<
So, he’s going after Obama?
Nifongism. The RINO who pulled this crap in Houston found herself voted out of office in 2016.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/anderson-upbeat-in-final-moments-of-das-race
Is everyone on a YouTube Video aware that they were being recorded and that it would become part of the Public Domain?
Did the Restaurant where this happened have Video Surveillance? If so, are they being prosecuted as well?
Did any of the other Customers there video anything in that Restaurant while those Criminals were in there?
Meanwhile the FBI or a similar LEO agency leaked the transcripts of Flynn’s bugged conversations (neither party was aware of the recording) to the media and there is no “crime”.
Fire all Democrats. They are corrupt AF.
is there a fund raising going on to defend these victims of Californication’s Nazi style government?
I think they have a good chance to beat this in court, at least for some of the charges. The California law:
“applies to “confidential communications” — i.e., conversations in which one of the parties has an objectively reasonable expectation that no one is listening in or overhearing the conversation.”
If I remember correctly, most of the conversations recorded were meetings in restaurants and public places. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a place like that where waiters and other diners could easily overhear the conversation.
They could mount a defense of “selective prosecution”. All they would need to do is find some examples of undercover news “stings” that happened in California that were not prosecuted, and they can claim they are being targeted unfairly.
isn’t this harassment and prosecution by attrition?
no jury will convict.
If a place is publicly funded, all or part, then to any degree does that make it a public place also?
Videos of our activities are being recorded everywhere without our knowledge. I have a camera on my driveway without any notice of surveillance. Highway patrol cars have cameras mounted to record without notice their activities. The NSA is recording our private lives through our TVs without any notice. And a judge gives a felony judgement for the same activity?
No. There is a lot of tricky jurisprudence about what exactly a “public place” is. Even places that are wholly public funded don’t necessary meet that definition.
For example, the courthouse steps are probably 100% a “public place”, the inside of a courtroom is a different category with more restrictions, mostly up to the discretion of the presiding judge, and the inside of the judge’s chambers in that courtroom is entirely NOT a “public place”. Yet all of those are publicly owned and funded property in the same building!
This will be a high profile trial. A legal defense fund will be set up and a number of highly competent conservative legal minds will line up for the defense. The argument might be privacy versus journalistic freedom—a constitutional issue.
I think most of the restrictive “two party consent” wiretap laws only hold up because they haven’t been challenged to a high enough court yet.
Usually they are used by the state as grounds for arrest (thereby getting their hands on any recorded evidence), but the cases are subsequently dropped by prosecutors before higher courts have a chance to strike down the law. Illinois made the mistake of trying to actually prosecute under it’s similar two party consent law a few years ago and the state Supreme Court struck it down. I don’t think any of these laws have ever even made it to the federal courts or Supreme courts yet.
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