People v. Collins

*11Griffin, J.

We are required to decide whether recorded evidence of conversations between this defendant and a police informant, electronically monitored by police with the informant’s consent, but without a valid search warrant, must be suppressed in defendant’s subsequent felony trial. In People v Beavers, 393 Mich 554; 227 NW2d 511 (1975), this Court ruled that the warrantless electronic monitoring by the police of a conversation, even though consented to by one of the conver-sants, violates art 1, § 11 of the Michigan Constitution, requiring the exclusion at trial of evidence thus obtained.…