Springer v. United States

NEWMAN, Chief Judge:

Appellants were convicted by a jury of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and of solicitation to commit a felony, to wit: first-degree murder. On appeal they each claim: (1) that prejudicial error resulted from the procedures utilized by the trial court in admitting into evidence and (placing before the jury) tape recordings— and transcripts thereof — of conversations between Springer and Detective Bagley, an undercover Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) detective; and (2) that the trial court deprived them of their Sixth Amendment right to confrontation by unduly…