People v. Gnozzo

These two cases test the use of telephone conversations intercepted under an eavesdropping warrant to establish probable cause for a subsequent search warrant against the outside party to the conversation, not named in the eavesdropping warrant. Appellant Zorn and respondent Gnozzo contend that the conversations may not be used against persons not named in the eavesdropping warrant, and especially so where the warrant was never amended to include them. Belated issues raised in the Zorn appeal are whether the eavesdropping warrant was supported by probable cause and whether its 30-day term and…