People v. Shields

In these two prosecutions of public *276servants inter alia for bribe receiving in the second degree (Penal Law, § 200.10), arising out of the same investigation, each defendant moves: (1) for an audibility hearing of a tape recording made of a conversation or conversations he had with a person acting under the direction of a law enforcement officer; (2) for a scientific test of the tape or tapes; and (3) for a transcript of the recording.

The minutes of the grand jury proceeding reveal that after the recording was played for the jurors, one of them complained that he did not understand a portion…