‘Tainted Evidence From Bugging’
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) WASHINGTON, December 4. The United States Justice Department has begun a searching review of all criminal cases where evidence was obtained by hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
Government lawyers disclosed the move at an unprecedented Supreme Court hearing yesterday when the Justice Department asked for reversal of a recent conviction because the F.B.L gathered "tainted” evidence with a
hidden microphone known as a “bug.” Joseph Schipani, of New York, was convicted in October on five counts of wilfully attempting to evade income taxes and was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and a fine of 12,500 dollars. Lawyers told the Court yesterday that F.B.L agents planted a microphone at a place frequented by Schipani and others. But Schipani was not a suspect at the time and the agent had to trespass to plant his “bugging” device, so some of the evidence against him was tainted. The department asked the Court to order a fresh trial in case the Government decides to press charges again.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31235, 6 December 1966, Page 23
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