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· 9/25/1978

United States v. Frederick Lyle McIntyre United States of America v. Dale Irwin Vanbuskirk

Citations

  • 582 F.2d 1221

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a police officer who had a microphone and transmitter placed in his briefcase had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his office even when the officer commonly left his door open
  • Title III “is full of references to law enforcement officers as targets of the legislation”
  • “There is no question that McGann had a subjective expectation of privacy ... [because] he believed that normal conversations in his office could not be overheard, even when the doors to his office were open.”

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Judges: Ely, Goodwin, Palmieri

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