Halford v. Missouri State Highway Patrol

FENNER, Chief Judge.

In August of 1991, evidence of illegal wiretaps surfaced within the Missouri State Highway Patrol (Patrol), and an investigation was commenced. During the investigation, it was determined that a listening device had been placed on the telephone of Corporal Oliver Dixon, an investigator for the Missouri Lottery. The wiretap had been placed on Corporal Dixon’s telephone at Patrol headquarters in Jefferson City, Missouri, in the spring of 1987 and was removed June 13, 1987. Corporal Dixon had been transferred to the Division of Drug and Crime Control in November of 1986, and…