Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 7/5/1990

Commonwealth v. Cote

Citations

556 N.E.2d 45
407 Mass. 827
1990 Mass. LEXIS 308

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holding that district attorney may not use a grand jury subpoena except to place evidence before the grand jury
analyzing claim that use of grand jury subpoena to acquire telephone message records violated art. 14
finding improper a prosecutor’s issuance of a grand jury subpoena duces tecum, without then presenting the records to the grand jury
noting “the need for the strict separation of the grand juiy’s investigatoiy function and the district attorney’s prosecutorial function”
no reasonable expectation of privacy under Fourth Amendment or art. 14 in telephone answering service message records
“It may be that under art. 14 exposure of information to another party might not compel the rejection of a claim of a reasonable expectation of privacy”

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Judges: Liacos, Wilkins, Abrams, Lynch, Greaney

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