Casas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “The Mississippi Supreme Court has held that “electronic surveillance, ‘bugging,’ does not tread upon the constitutional rights of the Fourth Amendment when the consent of one of the parties is first obtained. The expectation of privacy, though perhaps shaken by the mistaken belief that a person to whom one volun tarily confides will not reveal the conversation does not reach constitutional proportions.” Everett v. State, 248 So.2d 439, 443 (Miss.1971) (citing Hoffa v. United States, 385 U.S. 293 , 87 S.Ct. 408 , 17 L.Ed.2d 374 (1966)). Price consented to the officers eavesdropping on the conversations; therefore, the agents did not have to seek a court order to record the exchange between the [sic] Casas and Price. As was pointed out in Everett , “one contemplating illegal activities must realize and risk that his companions may be reporting to the police.” Id.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 4 So. 3d 377 - Bankston v. State