Wendee Long v. State

OPINION

YVONNE T. RODRIGUEZ, Justice

The issue in this case of first impression is whether the following incidents constitute crimes under Texas’s criminal wiretap statute: the surreptitious recording — later disclosed to a third party — of a public high school basketball coach’s half-time and post-game speeches to his team in the visiting locker room of a • public high school. In essence, a person violates the wiretap statute by intentionally recording, or intentionally disclosing the contents of, a “wire, oral, or electronic communication.” See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 16.02(b)(1), (b)(2)(West…