Page v. State

495 So.2d 436 (1986)

Ricky R. PAGE and Darlene Ellzey Page

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 56186.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

July 9, 1986.

Rehearing Denied October 29, 1986.

Mager A. Varnado, Jr., Gulfport, for appellants.

Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by Henry C. Clay, III, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I

At the core of this appeal is the question whether law enforcement officials may, consistent with an accused's constitutional right to counsel, conceal a body microphone on a co-defendant and thereby obtain from the accused substantial…