State v. Pottle

Defendant appeals his conviction for murder, assigning as error five trial court rulings on the admissibility of certain types of evidence, some of which was obtained by electronic surveillance. We reverse and remand for a new trial.

In early December, 1980, Mindi Tucker left her husband, Chris, and moved in with Paula Mannhalter. About a week later, on December 14, Chris Tucker’s body was discovered in the bedroom of his Washington County home. He had been stabbed five times. After several days of investigation, suspicion centered on Mindi and on defendant as a possible accomplice: the police…