Re: Disturbing statistics on wiretaps
17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
The same is true of e-mail over the Internet--there is no statutory exclusionary rule that would prvent its admissibility in court. It is at least theoretically possible, however, to exclude illegally seized communications of these sorts using a "pure 4th Amendment" (nonstatutory) exclusionary rule. Don't hold your breath, though. Do you really think that? One could argue, fairly strongly, that the rules set forth in the ECPA have created an expectation of privacy, and that a violation of that expectation would be exactly the violation of the 4th Amendment that the Supreme Court addressed in the 1967 decision that led to the original wiretap provisions in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act.
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