UNITED STATES v. TORRES

No. 84-1077.

751 F.2d 875 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Alejandrina TORRES, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 19, 1984.

Certiorari Denied March 25, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph H. Hartzler, Asst. U.S. Atty., Dan K. Webb, U.S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

David C. Thomas, Chicago Kent College of Law, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, and CUDAHY and POSNER, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied March 25, 1985. See 105 S.Ct. 1853.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal by the United States raises two novel and important questions: whether the federal government may ever secretly televise the interior of a private building as part of a criminal investigation and use the videotapes in a criminal trial, and if so whether the warrants under which television surveillance was conducted in this case complied with constitutional requirements...

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