Commonwealth v. Whiting

HOFFMAN, Judge:

This is a consolidated nunc pro tunc appeal from appellant Thomas Whiting’s November 3, 1988 judgment of sentence and from appellant David Cooke’s February 9, 1989 judgment of sentence. Appellants raise the following issues for our review:

I.Did the Court err in permitting admission of tape recordings of [appellants] obtained in violation of procedures where ... the surveillance was conducted by a co-conspirator with no effective safeguards to assure reliability of the recordings?

II. Should the Court have suppressed post-indictment statements made by [appellants] where they were…