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Still, if you are innocent and have a good case for the jury, you don't publicize the technicalities that can get you off if the innocence plea fails.

Why not? What they did was clearly illegal.

Don't get me wrong, I think he is probably guilty, but so are the investigators..

If I was wiretapping someone's phone, I don't know if it would always be clear up front that attorney-client privilege applied on a conversation...and just because you stop recording doesn't mean you stop listening.

But wouldn't it drive you crazy to have heard something that left you no doubt about a case, and be unable to say anything?

I don't know. I think we put too many minefields in the way of people actually INVESTIGATING a crime. The time to throw out evidence on this kind of technicality is AFTER the evidence is collected, not during. I'm not saying give the investigators total carte-blanche, but they shouldn't have to fear that everything they do on a case will be thrown out if they make mistakes on some of it.