United States v. Mavroules

MEMORANDUM AND FIRST ORDER ON DEFENDANT NICHOLAS MAVROULES’ MOTION TO SUPPRESS ILLEGALLY OBTAINED EVIDENCE (# 56)

COLLINGS, United States Magistrate Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

In August or September of 1985, Andrew Gerakaris (“Gerakaris”) tape recorded certain telephone conversations between himself and another, one Alan Karaharis, and between himself and his father-in-law, the defendant Nicholas Mavroules (“Mavroules” or “the defendant”). Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2515, Mavroules seeks to have the tapes of these conversations suppressed from use as evidence at his criminal trial on the grounds that…