· 10/9/1973
LaSorsa v. United States
Citations
- 414 U.S. 855
- 94 S. Ct. 157
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- requiring suppression of conversations of party who was neither named in order nor conversing with named party, when order permitted only “the interception of telephonic communications of [named suspect] with co-conspirators, accomplices and agents”; id., 273
- \too brief a period for an eavesdropper even with experience to identify the caller and characterize the conversation.\
- effect on commerce found where payment of $150 was extorted by local official from tavern owner who purchased liquor from state distributors who in turn purchased liquor interstate
- when police are merely assisting a private party who has authority to search and a legitimate need to do so, courts are reluctant to exclude the resulting evidence
- when police are merely assisting a private party who has authority to search and a legitimate need to do so, courts are reluctant to exclude the resulting evidence
- two minutes is “too brief a period for an eavesdropper even with experience to identify the caller and characterize the conversation”
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