{"id":56018,"date":"2023-10-09T07:34:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T12:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=56018"},"modified":"2023-10-09T07:34:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T12:34:17","slug":"ma-officer-recording-drug-deal-on-cell-phone-governed-by-state-wiretap-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=56018","title":{"rendered":"MA: Officer recording drug deal on cell phone governed by state wiretap law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An officer\u2019s surreptitious recording of a drug deal with a cell phone is an interception of a communication under the state wiretapping law. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/files\/documents\/2023\/10\/06\/b22P0870.pdf\">Commonwealth v. Du<\/a>, 2023 Mass. App. LEXIS 143 (Oct. 6, 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The publicly available address (SoS, website, advertisements) was Suite B at that address. It was a large place and also was Suite D. \u201cThough additional research might have led the government to discover the separate address of Suite D, it was reasonable to believe, even for good faith exception purposes, that the publicly available address, which is also the only address listed with the Louisiana Secretary of State (per Bodin&#8217;s testimony), was in fact the address of Dave&#8217;s Gunshop.\u201d United States v. Micah, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 180629 (W.D. La. Aug. 14, 2023),* adopted, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 179467 (W.D. La. Oct. 4, 2023).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even ordering the driver out of the car was based on reasonable suspicion. United States v. Chandler, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 180116 (N.D. Ala. Aug. 21, 2023).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An officer\u2019s surreptitious recording of a drug deal with a cell phone is an interception of a communication under the state wiretapping law. Commonwealth v. Du, 2023 Mass. App. LEXIS 143 (Oct. 6, 2023). The publicly available address (SoS, website, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=56018\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,35,59,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-faith-exception","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-scope-of-search","category-video-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56018","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56019,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56018\/revisions\/56019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}