Commonwealth v. DiSilvio

Opinion by

Jacobs, J.,

This appeal challenges the admissibility of evidence obtained by police officers answering the appellant’s telephone during an authorized search of his premises. The appellant contends that the information elicited from the callers was obtained in violation of Pennsylvania’s anti-wiretapping statute as it stood in 1972 when the search took place. 1 We hold that the actions of the police in answering the telephone did not constitute an interception of a communication such as is prohibited by the Act of July 16, 1957, the law in effect when the search took place, and the…