{"id":5713,"date":"2011-06-29T19:28:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T19:28:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T19:28:55","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5713","title":{"rendered":"“Did Pa. Police Officer’s Text Messages Violate Wiretap Act?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did Pa. Police Officer’s Text Messages Violate Wiretap Act?<\/a> by Gina Passarella in The Legal Intelligencer, June 29, 2011:<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has granted allocatur in two cases related to whether a police officer violates the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act by pretending to be an accomplice and communicating directly with a suspect via text message.<\/p>\n

The court granted the appeals in Commonwealth v. Cruttenden and Commonwealth v. Lanier June 16. A panel of the Superior Court ruled in June 2009 that it was “constrained” to uphold a trial court’s grant of Jeffrey S. Cruttenden and Stephen Lanier’s motion to suppress evidence in the criminal cases against them.<\/p>\n

The court’s decision in Cruttenden has already resulted in the upholding of other suppression rulings, including in the case of Commonwealth v. Rosa. In that case, the Superior Court held this year that a narcotics detective violated Pennsylvania’s Wiretap Act by using two cell phones to receive calls intended for the phones’ owners and to set up defendants’ subsequent arrests on drug charges. A phone seized by the police rang frequently, and the detective answered it. Impersonating the owner of the cell phone, the detective made arrangements to meet the caller for a drug transaction. The detective met the caller and arrested him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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