Opinion ID: 2093275
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Heading: wiretaps

Text: Myers claims that the district court erred in failing to suppress evidence derived from two unlawful wiretaps. We have fully evaluated the placement of these wiretaps and the accompanying pretrial motions in State v. Myers, 258 Neb. 272, 603 N.W.2d 390 (1999). We concluded that the search warrants authorizing placement of the wiretaps were valid and that the district court was not clearly wrong in overruling Myers' pretrial motions to exclude evidence obtained as a result of these wiretaps. Id. A trial court's ruling on a motion to suppress, apart from determinations of reasonable suspicion to conduct investigatory stops and probable cause to perform warrantless searches, is to be upheld on appeal unless its findings of fact are clearly erroneous. In making this determination, an appellate court does not reweigh the evidence or resolve conflicts in the evidence, but, rather, recognizes the trial court as the finder of fact and takes into consideration that it observed the witnesses. State v. Cuny, 257 Neb. 168, 595 N.W.2d 899 (1999). We find this assignment of error is without merit.