Commonwealth v. Ward

MOTTO, P.J.,

Before the court for disposition is defendant’s omnibus pretrial motion in the form of a petition for writ of habeas corpus alleging that the Commonwealth did not establish a prima facie case to the charges of interception of communications (18 Pa.C.S. §5703(1)), possession of device for intercepting communications (18 Pa.C.S. §5705(1)), and possession of instruments of a crime (18 Pa.C.S. §907(A)), because the victim had no reasonable expectation of privacy with regard to her conversations at work and the digital recorder used was not designed to be primarily useful for the…