State v. Smith

We previously issued an opinion regarding the effect of police failure to comply with provisions of the privacy act when obtaining authorization to record conversations in a drug transaction.1 Our Supreme Court granted the State’s petition for review and remanded this case to us for reconsideration in light of the decision in State v. Jimenez.2 We have reconsidered our prior decision and now affirm the judgment and sentence in its entirety.

In our prior decision, we held that a request for agency authorization to record must include such information about the expected location of the…