Legal Opinion

In Re In-Progress Trace of a Wire Communication

Supreme Court of New Jersey

Decided April 28, 1978PublishedCited by 24 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Schreiber, J.

We are called upon in this case to interpret the technical assistance provision of the New Jersey Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act, N. J. S. A. 2A:156A-12. More particularly, the issue is whether under that provision a court may order a telephone company to trace a phone call so as to ascertain a phone number (and presumably the identity of the person calling from that number) from which calls are being made to another telephone which has been subjected to a lawful intercept order.

The question arose in a virtually…

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2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  3. Berger v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  4. United States v. New York Telephone Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
  5. United States v. GiordanoSupreme Court of the United States · 1974

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3Cited by24 opinions

  1. State v. HuntSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1982
  2. State v. CataniaSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1981
  3. PBA Local No. 38 v. Woodbridge Police DepartmentDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1993
  4. State v. ForninoNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1988
  5. District Attorney for the Plymouth District v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980

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