Commonwealth v. Hashem

OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

We granted allocatur in the present case to determine, as a question of first impression, the specific requirements governing the use of information intercepted under the provisions of the Wiretap Act, 18 Pa.C.S. § 5701 et seq., when the crime alleged is different from the targeted criminal activity that formed the basis for the original intercept order. Upon the facts of record and for the reasons following, we are constrained to reverse the Order of the Superior Court, 363 Pa.Super. Ill, 525 A.2d 744, which affirmed the Order of the Court of Common Pleas of…