Washburn v. State

In this appeal, we are asked to decide whether vel non the Circuit Court for Cecil County, Wise, J., erroneously deprived the appellant, Oakley Chaffin Washburn, Jr., of a hearing to establish that the evidence adduced by the State against appellant was tainted by an illegal wiretap, whether a search and seizure warrant was invalid because it was “conceivably based upon tainted evidence” obtained through an illegal wiretap, and whether “tapes of the wiretapping” should have been made available to the appellant. We shall set forth herein only those facts necessary to understand the issues…