Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Vitello
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 1, 1975PublishedCited by 140 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, J.
The defendants were convicted after a jury trial on indictments charging them with violations of various gaming laws.2 They assign and argue as error: (1) the denial of their motions to suppress the contents of intercepted wire and oral communications, (2) the denial of their motions to suppress certain physical evidence which was seized on warrants based in part on information derived from the wiretaps, (3) the admission in evidence of expert testimony which purported to identify the defendants’ recorded voices through spectrographie comparisons, (4) the holding "of a pre-trial voir dire…
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3Cited by140 opinions
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