United States v. Frank Joseph Fuentes and Carmello Sansone, A/K/A \Michel\

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• noting “the varying circumstances of particular cases . . . militate against our adoption of inflexible criteria [for authenticating tape recordings] applicable to all cases”
• The trial court’s “discretion to admit the evidence is not to be sacrificed to a formalistic adherence to the standard we establish.”
• Where “[G]overnment adduced considerable proof of [defendant’s] guilt, wholly independent of his post-arrest statements,” failure of trial judge to give jury instruction on voluntariness of confession under § 3501(a) constitutes harmless error.
• “[i]t will normally suffice [to prove consent] for the government to show that the informer went ahead with a [conversation] after knowing what the law enforcement officers were about”
• failure to object to authentication and accuracy of tape recordings

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