[docmcb]

The Aaronsons clearly didn't just happen to overhear their neighbors' phone conversation and happen to have a tape recorder handy. They presumably were listening a LOT to their neighbors' conversations and were prepared to tape what they heard. Legal or not, I find that at least as offensive as what the Quigley's said, and I'll bet the jury did also.

[per loin]

With most scanners that I've used, one has to input frequencies, or at least ranges of frequencies to scan. I agree that it sounds unlikely that the Aronsons just stumbled across the Quigley's conversations.