United States v. Nelson Bunker Hunt and W. Herbert Hunt

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

This case presents a troublesome question of standing to contest the legality of a police search and seizure of certain instruments of electronic surveillance allegedly employed by brothers Nelson Bunker Hunt and W. Herbert Hunt against a group of their own relatives and some employees of their father, H. L. Hunt. After indictment on charges of wilfully, knowingly and unlawfully intercepting and endeavoring to intercept wire communications of certain persons in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2511(1) (a) and (2), 1 defendants filed a motion to suppress the disputed evidence…