U.S. District Court: TELEPHONE PRIVACY.

• Position: Brief Article

U.S. v. Peoples, 71 F.Supp.2d 967 (W.D.Mo. 1999). A defendant who was charged with killing a witness to prevent testimony moved to suppress recordings of telephone conversations and in-person meetings that he had with a prisoner. The district court denied the motion, finding that the recordings did not violate the Fourth Amendment rights of the defendant. According to the court, a visitor of a prisoner did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in conversations with the prisoner...