Commonwealth v. Tibbs

Gants, Ralph D., J.

On April 8 and April 19, 1999, while the defendant John Tibbs was in custody in a Rhode Island jail (the Wyatt Detention Center) awaiting trial on federal firearm charges, Tibbs’s conversations with Edward Mills and Damon Araujo were recorded by a recording device worn by Mills. The Commonwealth has moved that this Court find these consensually recorded conversations to be admissible at trial; the defendant has moved that they be excluded from evidence. After a non-evidentiary hearing, this Court finds that the tape recordings are admissible at trial to the extent that they…