Opinion ID: 891652
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Heading: New Mexico Constitution: Article II, Sections 10, 14, 15, and 17

Text: {16} Article II, Section 10 of the New Mexico Constitution protects against unreasonable searches and seizures. Although our Constitution generally provides greater protection than the Fourth Amendment, Article II, Section 10 is not violated by the recording of the jail phone calls because Defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in phone calls he knew were being recorded. See Templeton, 2007-NMCA-108, ¶ 26, 142 N.M. 369, 165 P.3d 1145. {17} Article II, Section 14 protects the right to counsel. As there was no call to Defendant's attorney involved, Section 14 was not violated. See Coyazo, 1997-NMCA-029, ¶ 19, 123 N.M. 200, 936 P.2d 882. {18} Article II, Section 15 protects against coerced self-incrimination. Just as it did not violate the Fifth Amendment, recording these calls did not violate Section 15. See id. ¶ 17. {19} Article II, Section 17 protects freedom of speech. The First Amendment of the federal Constitution is not violated when prisons monitor inmates' phone calls for prison security purposes. See, e.g., United States v. Vasta, 649 F.Supp. 974, 989-90 (S.D.N.Y.1986). Defendant offers no argument that Article II, Section 17 provides greater speech protections in this case, see State v. Gomez, 1997-NMSC-006, ¶ 23, 122 N.M. 777, 932 P.2d 1, and thus we need not determine whether Section 17 was violated by prison officials recording the phone calls.