[Revolting cat!]

You are right. Now, does the State have the right to put the defendant on bail under surveillance and record his conversations?

[Conscience of a Conservative]

You are right. Now, does the State have the right to put the defendant on bail under surveillance and record his conversations?

Is there any indication that the State did so in this case? The State apparently has recordings of his conversations prior to the Bond hearing, when he was in jail. Jail phone conversations are routinely monitored.

In any event, depending on the circumstance, the State likely can have the right to put a defendant on bail under surveilance, and to monitor his conversations as well. Bail is an alternative to being locked up, and so judges have wide latitude to set conditions of bail. If monitoring/surveillance are a condition of bail, then, yes, the State can monitor and surveil.

[floriduh voter]

All jail conversations are taped in Florida. Remember Casey Anthony's conversations with her entire family? Well, GZ and his wife talked about the paypal account and he was advising her where to transfer the money to. They both knew and didn't tell the judge at the bond hearing.

Today was a different judge. Wasn't the other one a female? No comment on the kid's fb page. They are not stepping in this one.