People v. Chrysler’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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1. “Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the hearing court properly granted the People’s motion for a protective order relieving it of the obligation to search approximately one year of recorded conversations taped by the Town of New-burgh Police Department (hereinafter the police department) for possible material under [Rosario] and [Brady], The People’s case consisted of testimony from a witness who agreed to act as an informant for the police. Numerous telephone conversations were made between this witness and the police, many of which were recorded by an automatic audio tape-recording system operated by the police department. The People were required to search for discoverable material for a two-month period, which represented the time leading up to the defendant’s arrest, in addition to any and all conversations that could be identified through various records such as lead sheets and notes generated by the police during their investigation. It is uncontroverted that as a result of the People’s efforts, thousands of documents and over 240 taped conversations were provided to the defendant. Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the People were not required to search all tapes of every telephone call made to the police department and a protective order was properly issued since the effort to search all tapes would have been unduly burdensome and would have had an adverse impact on the legitimate needs of law enforcement. The tapes, which included close to 200,000 conversat”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 14 F. Supp. 3d 418 - Chrysler v. Guiney