{"id":45762,"date":"2020-10-14T02:43:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T07:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45762"},"modified":"2020-10-14T02:43:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T07:43:40","slug":"mt-private-actor-recording-conversation-on-own-didnt-violate-state-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45762","title":{"rendered":"MT: Private actor recording conversation on own didn&#8217;t violate state constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Montana Constitution\u2019s more \u201crobust protection from government intrusions\u201d still only protects against state action. A private actor recording a conversation without impetus from the state was not unreasonable. <a href=\"https:\/\/fnds.mt.gov\/JUD\/document?params=U2FsdGVkX1%2FGYg1nyweNlr5rNQG93nBPZQCcdNyaHOTuL2iiY4G%2BxRvXk%2FiobrU6k2p34QGT0DIcsyTODkNfKsV413vP9XHJJw%2BqT5%2F5mY0CC3R%2FpchoYaljWqDuEH6biLviu3bWisLvhG5HMjTxjQ%3D%3D&amp;callback=?\">State v. Wolfe<\/a>, 2020 MT 260, 2020 Mont. LEXIS 2436 (Oct. 13, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Probable cause here was established by three CIs and substantial corroboration by the officers. United States v. Penney, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 189057 (W.D. Pa. Oct. 13, 2020).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defense counsel was not obligated to make a frivolous motion to suppress, and defendant doesn\u2019t show in his ineffective assistance of counsel claim that there was a Fourth Amendment issue that would succeed. United States v. Sewell, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 189260 (N.D. Ind. Oct. 13, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montana Constitution\u2019s more \u201crobust protection from government intrusions\u201d still only protects against state action. A private actor recording a conversation without impetus from the state was not unreasonable. State v. Wolfe, 2020 MT 260, 2020 Mont. LEXIS 2436 (Oct. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45762\">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":[23,44,43,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ineffective-assistance","category-informant-hearsay","category-private-search","category-state-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45762","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=45762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45763,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45762\/revisions\/45763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}