Richard R. Mcdade v. State of Florida

In this case, we consider a certified question of great public importance concerning the application of the prohibition under chapter 934, Florida Statutes (2010), on intercepting certain oral communications. Specifically, we consider whether the prohibition applies to recordings of solicitation and confirmation of child sexual abuse when the recordings were surreptitiously made by the child in the bedroom of the accused.

In McDade v. State, 114 So.3d 465, 467 (Fla. 2d DCA 2013), the Second District Court of Appeal rejected McDade’s argument that two recordings of conversations he had in his…