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· 4/12/2002

United States v. Donte Hammond

Citations

  • 286 F.3d 189
  • 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 6800
  • 2002 WL 548862

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding that the Bureau of Prisons was acting in the ordinary course of its duties by routinely monitoring inmate telephone calls
  • finding that the defendant consented to the interception of his conversations because he was notified of recording and nonetheless used the telephone
  • finding that the defendant consented to the interception of his conversations because he was notified of recording and nonetheless used the telephone
  • holding law-enforcement exception to federal wiretap statute applied to recording of defendant’s call from jail because the bureau of prisons “was acting pursuant to- its well-known policies in the ordinary course of its duties in taping the calls”
  • finding implied consent from notice through two handbooks, a consent form, an orientation lecture, and posted signs
  • finding consent when a prison required monitoring “as a condition of using prison telephones”

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Judges: Widener, Gregory, Hall, Ninth

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