State v. Valenzuela

These consolidated appeals follow convictions of the three defendants on a total of seventeen charges under the controlled drug act, RSA chapter 318-B, including possession of large quantities of cocaine with intent to sell. The defendants claim that the Superior Court (Wyman, J.) erred in authorizing the interception of the contents of communications transmitted over defendant Stephen Young’s telephone lines on the basis, in part, of information obtained by the use of pen registers, previously installed on the same lines under a federal court’s order unsupported by probable cause; that Gray,…