United States v. Cianfrani

OPINION

EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.

I. Preliminary Statement

This opinion 1 addresses the question whether a hearing on a defendant’s motion to suppress as evidence the tapes of intercepted oral or wire communications and on a corresponding Government motion to authenticate those recordings for use at trial must, at the request of the defendant, be held in camera or, conversely, whether the public and the news media are entitled to access to that hearing and/or to the transcript and record thereof. Principally at issue are the tapes of certain conversations between defendant, Henry J.…