wiretap-authorization

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6109 Kevin Lewis and Otis Ponds v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure department-of-justice evidence-standard statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretap-authorization What evidence must the government present in a wiretap application to establish that an authorized official approved the application, and what is the …
21-7095 Paul Anthony Darrah v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied IFP enterprise enterprise-existence first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech jury-instruction jury-instructions necessity-requirement rico-conspiracy title-iii-wiretap wiretap-authorization Should the jury have been allowed to convict on the hypothetical existence of a RICO enterprise?
21-6936 Charles Roland Cheatham, aka Chi-Chi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy conspiracy-investigation criminal-investigation evidence-derivation law-enforcement-procedure material-misstatement necessity probable-cause transfer wiretap wiretap-authorization May the government obtain a wiretap to investigate whether an individual is a member of an alleged conspiracy, by relying in part upon evidence from t…