Williams v. State

Judge Harold R. Banke.

The appellant, Sara Williams, was convicted of several violations of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act. Much of the evidence proving those offenses was obtained as a result of the use of a pen register and subsequent wiretap on her residential telephone, the propriety of which forms the primary basis of this appeal.

On March 20, 1992, in the course of investigating reports of the appellant and her family operating a narcotics distribution ring, the Floyd County district attorney obtained authorization for a pen register to be placed on the appellant’s residential…