Commonwealth v. Santoro

How courts have described this case

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• G. L. c. 272, § 99 “forbids the interception of certain oral communications by private individuals”
• judge has discretion not to suppress unlawful interceptions, such as where no deterrent purpose would be served by exclusion
• statute concerns “legitimate privacy interests of individuals in speech they wish to keep private”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).