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· 8/9/1989

United States v. Joseph Feekes, Baltazar Lopez, and Juan Lopez

Citations

  • 879 F.2d 1562

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the consent exception did not apply even though the defendant spoke in code in the recorded calls
  • noting that “significant efforts were made to notify inmates that their telephone calls (other than to their lawyers) would be monitored, including signs in both English and Spanish to this effect which were posted within four to six inches of each phone”
  • “The regulations of the Bureau of Prisons authorized the tape recording of all prisoner calls except to prisoners’ lawyers, and [inmate’s] calls to his son were recorded in accordance with this routine, which was the ‘ordinary course’ for the officers who supervised the monitoring system.”

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Judges: Cummings, Posner, Kanne

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