United States v. Pine

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JOSEPH H. YOUNG, District Judge.

The defendant, James A. Pine, seeks to suppress the tape recordings of several telephone conversations with the co-defendant John Paul Daniel. The government has offered these tapes as evidence to support the charge contained in the indictment that the defendants committed mail fraud by attempting to process a false automobile accident claim. The contested conversations were intercepted while Daniel’s telephone was under surveillance in March and April, 1977. Pine contends that the interception of the calls, their disclosure to the Federal…