Kenneth H. Adams, Walter L. Evans, William v. Evans, R.K. Sellers v. Richard B. Lankford

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

Appellants Adams, Walter Evans, William Evans, and Sellers were indicted and convicted under the Georgia RICO statute based on offenses of commercial gambling. Prior to trial, they filed motions to suppress tape recordings of conversations taken from various telephone wiretaps. Appellants argued that the Fulton County District Attorney and a Fulton County Superior Court judge had no authority, under either Georgia law or Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2516(2), 2518(3), to authorize wiretaps on telephones outside Fulton County.…