Legal Opinion
United States v. Rigoberto Raciel Mesa
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 4, 1980No. 80-1510PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SEITZ, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal by the government from an interlocutory order of the district court, 487 F.Supp. 562, granting the motion of the defendant, Rigoberto Mesa, to suppress a tape-recorded conversation between Mesa and an FBI agent. Jurisdiction is based on 18 U.S.C. § 3731 (1976).
I
The facts are undisputed. On January 28, 1980, Karin Little, Mesa’s “common-law” wife, and Sonia Mesa, his daughter, were shot and wounded. Later that day, the victims, both of whom survived, informed the FBI that Mesa had inflicted their injuries. The FBI was unable to locate Mesa on January…
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