Court Opinion

ID: 9766551
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 04:52:58.339805+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:23.749429
License: Public Domain

Concurring Opinion by
Mr. Justice Eagen :
I do not construe the Act of July 16, 1957, P. L. 956, §1, 15 P.S. §2443, to be aimed at the use of an ordinary extension telephone. It may well be that eavesdropping of every nature should be proscribed by statute but I am not persuaded that the legislation involved so intended. However, it is clear to me that the recording or wiretapping device used in the instant case was in violation of the statute and that the testimony of the witness Morris was sufficiently predicated upon *54and tainted by this illegal activity to be inseparable therefrom.
I therefore concur in the grant of a new trial.
Mr. Justice Jones joins in this opinion.