{"id":4801,"date":"2010-10-22T14:12:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T10:56:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T10:56:50","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4801","title":{"rendered":"FreeP: &#8220;Lawyers argue over secret taping of Jabalee brothers at gravesite&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Detroit Free Press: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20101020\/NEWS04\/101020041\/1001\/NEWS\/Lawyers-argue-over-secret-taping-of-Jabalee-brothers-at-gravesite#ixzz136F5i5qz\">Lawyers argue over secret taping of Jabalee brothers at gravesite<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ryan Jabalee was heard crying or sobbing on a recording device set up by law enforcement at the gravesite of his murdered parents, Ronald and Christine Jabalee, in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>His brother, Ronald Jabalee Jr. &#8212; who is standing trial today in Macomb County Circuit Court in the October 2006 slayings &#8212; did not sound distraught.<\/p>\n<p>In opening statements, the prosecution painted Ronald as an uncaring son. The recording, if admitted, could support their claim. <\/p>\n<p>Defense attorney Stephen Rabaut said the device was installed without a warrant and that the Fourth Amendment goes beyond telephone calls and includes invasion of privacy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s eavesdropping,&#8221; he said, adding that Michigan has a law about eavesdropping.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Prosecutor Steven Kaplan disagreed, saying &#8220;there&#8217;s no privacy in public.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Could they eavesdrop in a public place with a parabolic microphone a la <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0071360\/\">&#8220;The Conversation&#8221;<\/a>, or should a warrant be required? Is a graveside a &#8220;public place&#8221;? Is our society expectation that we will not be overhead alone at a graveside?<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2010\/10\/21\/grave-whispering.aspx?ref=rss\">Simple Justice Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4801\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}