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a legal
arrest."
During the
five years that we have been conducting our
research,
we have met with municipal court,
superior court
and appellate court jurists who provided informal guidance.
Each stated,
independent of one another as none knew we
had interviewed the others,
that as
long as law enforcement
personnel corroborated information provided by
a psychic
prior to asking for arrest and search warrants,
the evidence
could be introduced into court.
High technology has influenced cur courts
in their decisions
in reference
to wire taps.
The following was reported
in
the Los Angeles Times on March
25,
1984:
"Police can record
cordless telephone conversations heard over an FM radio and
use the recordings as evidence,"
the Kansas Supreme Court
ruled.
The court overturned a lower court ruling suppressing
taped conversations of Timothy and Rosemarie Howard of
Hutchinson,
Kansas,
charged with possession of cocaine and
conspiracy to sell marijuana.
The high court said conversa-
tions picked up by one of Howard's neighbors on a ham radio
are oral communications and are not covered by federal wire-
tapping laws.
Testimony indicated the cordless telephone
owner's manual
states "transmissions can be picked up on FM
radio
. "
Such communications eliminate reasonable expectation
of privacy
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v
What about the person who uses
a public phone booth that
does not have an enclosure and
a psychic
"hears"
about
a
major crime through ESP or remote viewing abilities?
Would
the high courts rule
in favor of introducing such evidence?
We
are rapidly approaching the
use of another aspect of high
technology,
the expanding intuitive functions.
It
is only
a
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time until these new techniques will be used on
a
daily
basis
as
an adjunct tool
for
law enforcement.
Society
and the courts will
soon be
judging these new techniques.
Those with knowledge
in
this expanding field must openly
discuss the pros and cons
of
these techniques and develop
effective guidelines to assure individual rights are not
violated
for the
sake
of
a conviction.
Movies
such
as
"Blue Thunder"
suggested that sophisticated
technology presents
some disturbing possibilities of aerial
police surveillance.
The reference here
is when the heli-
copter hovered outside
a window of
a very tall building and
used an electronic monitoring device to listen in on
a
conversation behind a wall.
Thus,
the potential for abusing
reasonable expectation of privacy
is very real.
Today's
appellate and supreme courts are dealing with simply aerial
flyovers and the federal-state marijuana eradication program.
Let's go one step further and state that we now have
a cadre
of law enfordement personnel who have successfully demonstrated
the use of psi and remote viewing abilities to arrest and
convict cocaine and heroin distributors
as well as interna-
tional
terrorists.
It has been alleged that certain foreign intelligence agencies
are utilizing such concepts to collect classified information.
If our courts are
just now dealing with aerial flyovers,
how will they cope with the expanding functions of the mind
and the legal
issues of using psi and remote viewing
in apprehending criminals?
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