Legal Opinion
United States v. John McTiernan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 20, 2012No. 10-50500PublishedCited by 116 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GILMAN, Circuit Judge:
John McTiernan, a famous Hollywood movie director, hired former private investigator Anthony Pellicano in 2000 to illegally wiretap the telephone conversations of two individuals. Six years later, when the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) questioned McTiernan about Pellicano’s activities, McTiernan claimed that he knew nothing about any wiretapping. But the FBI had obtained a digital recording (the Recording) that Pellicano had made — unbeknownst to McTiernan — of a telephone conversation in which the two men discussed an illegal wiretap. Caught red-handed,…
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