State v. Earle

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The lower court suppressed the evidence obtained through a series of court-authoriz*85ed wiretaps on the sole ground that City of Miami police officers who applied for the orders and who participated in the interceptions were, for a variety of highly-technical reasons relating to their bonds and oaths, not properly authorized special investigators of the Dade County State Attorney as stated in their affidavits1 and designated in the orders as those authorized to conduct the taps.2 Even assuming without deciding, however, that the determination that the officers did not…