Murphy v. State

DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

Murphy and Gould were convicted on pleas of nolo contendere of bookmaking and wagering, respectively, and having preserved for review the denials of their dis-positive motions to suppress evidence derived from an electronic surveillance conducted on a telephone in Murphy’s residence,1 they appealed.

We reverse the judgments of conviction upon a holding that the affidavit filed in support of the application for an order authorizing the interception of communications on Murphy’s phone failed to establish reasonable grounds that Murphy, whose communications were to be…