Legal Opinion
Ralph B. Carnes and Roger W. Smallwood v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 11, 1962No. 18421_1PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge.
This is an eavesdropping case, a problem that keeps bobbing up before the federal courts. Is evidence obtained by recording or by listening to a telephone conversation with the consent of one party, but without the knowledge or consent of the other, legally admissible evidence under Section 605 of the Federal Gommunications Act? The appellants .seek reversal of criminal convictions based in part upon taped recordings of telephone conversations, asserting that stripped of this inadmissible evidence the judgment lacks substantial support. We hold that the evidence was…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Weiss v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
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3Cited by36 opinions
- Paul John Carbo, Frank Palermo, Joseph Sica, Louis Tom Dragna, and Truman K. Gibson, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1963
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- Joseph C. Amsler and John W. Irwin v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1967
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