United States Second Circuit

The District Court denial of defendant's motion to suppress fruits of foreign wiretaps and his motion to compel the documentation underlying the foreign wiretap orders is affirmed where: 1) ongoing, formalized collaboration between an American law enforcement agency and its foreign counterpart does not, by itself, give rise to an "agency" relationship between the two entities sufficient to implicate the Fourth Amendment abroad; and 2) the Fourth Amendment's exclusionary rule does not impose a duty upon American law enforcement officials to review the legality, under foreign law, of applications for surveillance authority considered by foreign courts.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/07/2013
• Published 06/07/2013

Judges

• CABRANES

Court

• United States Second Circuit

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