Commonwealth v. Coviello

The defendant was convicted under G. L. c. 269, § 14A, as appearing in St. 1965, c. 521, of using the telephone repeatedly for the sole purpose of harassing, annoying or molesting one Hanley or his family. He presents for our consideration his exception to the denial of his pre-trial motion to suppress “records of intercepted communications” which were obtained without a warrant.

At the hearing on the defendant’s motion to suppress, it was established that a so called pen register or pen register device had been used by the telephone company to obtain certain information which would be used at…