United States v. Geller

MEMORANDUM

TROUTMAN, District Judge.

Defendants 1 , moving to suppress intercepted wire communications, argue that Pennsylvania’s “Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act” of 1978, 18 Pa.Con.Stat.Ann. § 5701 et seq., (“Wiretap Act” or “Act”), violates both the federal and state constitutions, that governmental misconduct in acquiring the order authorizing wire interception irredeemably tainted and distorted any permissible interception and that the government agents who executed the order violated legislative and judicial commands. A brief factual background is helpful in…