To: Boot Hill
There's a slight difference between inadmissable in court and being obtained criminally. Hearsay is generally inadmissable in court, but isn't criminal. Wiretapping in violation of the statute IS criminal.
38 posted on
03/03/2004 2:53:41 AM PST by
VaGunGuy
To: VaGunGuy
"Wiretapping in violation of the statute IS criminal."
According to the story is was not criminal till five days after the recording began.
--Boot Hill
47 posted on
03/03/2004 3:01:30 AM PST by
Boot Hill
(America: Thy hand will be upon the neck of thine enemies.)
To: VaGunGuy
There's also an interesting angle to the "admissability" of a recorded phone conversation that we seem to have forgotten about:
A recorded phone conversation could be admitted in court even if the recording were illegal -- as long as the police or prosecutor were not involved in the illegal recording. This was exactly what happened in the Lewinsky case -- the fact that one of the parties to the conversation may have recorded a conversation illegally did not preclude the use of that recording by a "disinterested" prosecutor who had nothing to do with obtaining the recording.
73 posted on
03/03/2004 3:39:07 AM PST by
Alberta's Child
(Alberta -- the TRUE North strong and free.)
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