United States v. Gilbert Luna

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

This is a government appeal from the suppression of wire tap evidence which the United States desired to offer in its prosecution of Gilbert Luna and three other defendants. The four had been indicted on four counts charging conspiracy to extort money from one William Stewart. The government contends that evidence of this extortion scheme was discovered as a result of a duly authorized and legal interception of communications through Gilbert Luna’s telephone under an order dated March 2, 1973, issued by a District Judge in the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern…