United States v. John R. Barletta

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

The United States appeals from an order of a district court, 512 F.Supp. 220, refusing to admit into evidence in a criminal trial a tape recording of a conversation between the defendant and a government informant.

The procedural history of this matter is set forth in our prior opinion in this case, United States v. Barletta, 644 F.2d 50 (1st Cir. 1981), and the court’s subsequent reaf-firmance of the earlier order discussed in that opinion forms the technical basis for this appeal. The court’s reasons for excluding the tape, however, are most fully addressed in a published…