Commonwealth v. Parrella

KELLY, Judge:

In this Opinion we are called upon to determine whether the trial court properly ordered the suppression of tape recordings of conversations between the appellee and his deceased estranged wife in the prosecution of the appellee for criminal homicide pursuant to 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 5721. The tapes and derivative evidence in controversy was uncovered through the unconsented recording of conversations between the appellee and his estranged wife, which occurred in an apartment on the night of her death. The tapes were made through the use of an improvised interception system consisting…