The Pennsylvania Superior Court rules that defendants must have a reasonable expectation of privacy to enjoy the evidentiary exclusionary rule provided in the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act (“WESCA”) and that authorization orders issued pursuant to WESCA serve as the functional equivalent of traditional search warrants. In two recent opinions on the Pennsylvania Wiretapping […]
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PA Sup. Ct. Exceptions to Spousal-Communication Privilege
In one of the latest criminal law opinions by the Pennsylvania Superior Court, it carves out an exception to the spousal-communication privilege, codified at 42 Pa.C.S. Sec. 5014, holding that the privilege must yield to child abuse prosecutions. To read the case, Commonwealth v. Hunter, — A.3d —- (2013), 2013 WL 150779, click here. No […]