Legal Opinion
United States v. Stephens
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided April 25, 2002No. 2:01-cv-00066PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
O’KELLEY, Senior District Judge.
At issue in this case is whether, in a criminal prosecution, the government may properly authenticate audio and video sur-' veillance tapes, and thus satisfy the prerequisites for admissibility under the Federal Rules of Evidence, even though the only person present and participating in the electronically recorded conversations, other than the defendant himself, is deceased.
I. Procedural History
During August and September of 2001, agents from the Regional Drug Enforcement Office of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (“GBI”) conducted an…
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