Legal Opinion
United States v. John P. McGuire United States of America v. Cherlyn Petersen
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 11, 2002No. 99-30165, 99-30166PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GOULD, Circuit Judge.
Defendants-Appellants John P. McGuire and Cherlyn Petersen were members of a group known as the Montana Freemen. They were convicted of bank fraud for participating in a scheme that involved printing bogus checks on a home computer and trying to exchange them for real currency. Petersen asserts that wiretapping conducted by the FBI during its investigation violated the federal wiretap statute because wiretapping was not “necessary” and because agents did not follow adequate minimization procedures during their interception of facsimile transmissions. McGuire…
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