United States Ninth Circuit

Government's failure to comply with recording and sealing requirements, in wiretaps of cell phone and pager communications, did not mandate suppression where non-compliance was adequately explained; portions of expert testimony should be excluded where the expert's interpretations of particular code words were not supported by reliable methods.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/15/2002
• Published 05/15/2002

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge., Before: POLITZ,W. FLETCHER and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• J. Douglas Wilson, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Appellate Division, Oakland, CA, for plaintiff-appellee United States of America., Dennis P. Riordan, Donald M. Horgan and Dylan L. Schaffer, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellant Robert Hermanek., Katherine Alfieri, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellant Robert Rutherford., Walter K. Pyle, Berkeley, CA, for defendant-appellant Sheldon Johnson., Amitai Schwartz, Berkeley, CA, for defendant-appellant Anthony Flowers., Alan Dressler, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellant Jerry Fiorillo.