{"id":23201,"date":"2016-08-01T17:35:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T22:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23201"},"modified":"2016-08-01T17:35:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T22:35:19","slug":"the-recorder-breyer-courthouse-bugs-violate-fourth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23201","title":{"rendered":"The Recorder: Breyer: Courthouse Bugs Violate Fourth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Recorder: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecorder.com\/home\/id=1202764086601\/Breyer-Courthouse-Bugs-Violate-Fourth-Amendment?mcode=1202617072607&#038;curindex=0&#038;slreturn=20160701183328\">Breyer: Courthouse Bugs Violate Fourth Amendment<\/a> by Ross Todd:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 A federal judge has barred prosecutors from introducing evidence picked up by recording devices planted outside the San Mateo County courthouse without a warrant.<\/p>\n<p>In a 19-page decision issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer found that federal investigators had &#8220;utterly failed to justify&#8221; a warrantless surveillance program which picked up more than 200 hours of recordings, including at least one private conversation between a judge and a prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even putting aside the sensitive nature of the location here, defendants have established that they believed their conversations were private and that they took reasonable steps to thwart eavesdroppers,&#8221; wrote Breyer, finding that the recordings violated the defendant&#8217;s Fourth Amendment rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Recorder: Breyer: Courthouse Bugs Violate Fourth Amendment by Ross Todd: SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 A federal judge has barred prosecutors from introducing evidence picked up by recording devices planted outside the San Mateo County courthouse without a warrant. In a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23201\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23202,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23201\/revisions\/23202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}