United States v. Vest

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a recording made to create a “receipt” entailed an impermissible purpose of furthering a criminal conspiracy
• recording receipt of payment was to be used “to force [the recorded party] to fulfill his end of the bargain”
• citing, inter alia, United States v. Phillips, 564 F.2d 32, 34 (8th Cir. 1977)
• “the mere fact that the substance of a conversation concerns criminal activities does not in itself lead- to the conclusion that the taping of a such a conversation is also a criminal act”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).