Source: https://butlercitizen.com/2018/04/08/marcus-fair-32-embarrasses-buffalo-township-police-proving-you-can-record-the-police-fairs-charges-dropped/
Timestamp: 2018-04-27 08:19:44
Document Index: 413399466

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 5703', '§1', '§ 4906', '§ 1501', '§ 1543', '§ 1301', '§ 1786', '§ 5503']

Marcus Fair, 32, embarrasses Buffalo Township Police, proving you can record the police. Fairs charges dropped – Butler News
April 8, 2018 butlercitizen
Marcus Fair, 32, embarrasses Buffalo Township Police, proving you can record the police. Fairs charges dropped
Marcus Fair, 32, of Buffalo Township was arrested last year for recording Patricia Forester of the Buffalo Township Police. Fair was arrested after the offer pulled Fair over, Fair then pulled out his cell phone and started to record the stop.
Forester then took Fair into custody, arrested him, and charged him with the following crimes telling Fair it was illegal for him to record her or the traffic stop.
1 1 F3 18 § 5703 §§1 Intercept Communications 02/08/2017 T 891996-0
2 False Reports – Reported Offense Did Not
2 M2 18 § 4906 §§B1 02/08/2017 T 891996-0
3 3 S 75 § 1501 §§A Driving W/O A License 02/08/2017 T 891996-0
4 4 S 75 § 1543 §§A Driv While Oper Priv Susp Or Revoked 02/08/2017 T 891996-0
5 5 S 75 § 1301 §§A Dr Unregist Veh 02/08/2017 T 891996-0
6 6 S 75 § 1786 §§A Required Financial Responsibility 02/08/2017 T 891996-0
7 7 M3 18 § 5503 §§A4 Disorder Conduct Hazardous/Physi Off 02/08/2017 T 891996-0
Fair this week had his charges dropped after sitting in jail for almost a year due to these charges and an unrelated domestic case in Buffalo Township.
Your Right to Take Videos and Photographs
When in outdoor public spaces where you are legally present, you have the right to capture any image that is in plain view (see note below about sound recording). That includes pictures and videos of federal buildings, transportation facilities (including airports), and police officers.
If the officer says he/she will arrest you if you continue to use your camera, in most circumstances it is better to put the camera away and call the ACLU for help, rather than risking arrest.
Police officers may not generally confiscate or demand to view your photographs or video or search the contents your cell phone without a warrant. In addition, it is possible that courts may approve the seizure of a camera in some circumstances if police have a reasonable, good-faith belief that it contains evidence of a crime by someone other than the police themselves (it is unsettled whether they still need a warrant to view them). (Note: This section has been updated to reflect the June 2014 US Supreme Court decision in Riley v. California, in which the court held that police need a warrant to search a cellphone.)
You have a right to capture images in public places, but you don’t always have a right to record what people say. Pennsylvania’s Wiretap Law makes it illegal to record private conversations – which can include conversations in public places – without the consent of all parties to the conversation. Conversations with police in the course of their duties are not private conversations, but many other things you may record on a public street are.
You have the right to videotape and audiotape police officers performing official duties in public. It is not a violation of the Pennsylvania Wiretap Law to do so. That means you can record an officer during a traffic stop, during an interrogation, or while he or she is making an arrest.
The Pennsylvania Wiretap Law does make it illegal to record any electronically transmitted conversation. Never record a telephone conversation without the permission of all parties to the conversation.
Once again this can and might lead to a lawsuit in Buffalo Township. Since the cops in Buffalo Township are clearly stupid.
ADA Mark Lope was contacted for comment on this case and of course that two faced douche bag had nothing to say, I watched this case personally and Lope the boot licker did everything possible in every shady way to try to get Fair to plea guilty to a crime that is a non crime. Lope should be punished for his actions but we all know he will not be.
Butler News talked to the ACLU in Pittsburgh about this case and how this man has been in jail for close to a year for recording the police. Pittsburgh division of the ACLU said they would not comment about the case publicly at this time, but are well aware of the case, and legal action could be filed soon.
Get ready for yet another lawsuit Buffalo Township residents! We need to work harder to pay the lawsuit fees for stupid and uninformed cops in this area.
Here is a lawsuit Buffalo Township is already facing. Click the link to read more.
https://butlercitizen.com/2017/12/01/buffalo-twp-police-police-officers-who-wrongly-raided-elderly-residents-home-over-hibiscus-well-here-is-a-copy-of-the-lawsuit/
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petegall97 says:
Haha yeah but most of those charges were crimes he committed. So he started recording because he was pissed off he was getting caught driving suspended. No license. Unregistered vehicle… I don’t get people who break laws then think they shouldn’t get any recourse once so ever. Which I’m sure was why he started recording in the first place. Like one of those faggots who are “traveling” instead of driving. Who say they don’t need a license. I’m sure he wasn’t in prison for that one charge pertaining to recording. But I know the point of it all. It is just simple legal to record. Usually people who aren’t doing something illegal don’t record and cause unneeded crap though. Food for thought I guess
It was his lead charge, the felony violated his probation for domestics. So yes, the recording was the reason he was in jail. The DA should have never let this fly. It’s going to lead to another deserving lawsuit.
First & Last Name says:
Oh wow i didn’t realize that was a felony. Good lord. Well then yeah. Disregard my ignorance please haha
Any idea who his lawyer is?
Christ i just talked to him last week, I’d have to look it up. He hired someone from Pittsburgh that specializes in this sort of thing
This happened in Butler County. He could hire Moe, Larry and Curly and win. He could use Perry Mason, who has been dead for 40 years and win. I really hate hearing that a criminal gets off on a loophole but I detest a police officer trying to make the rules and overstepping their boundaries even more.