Court Opinion

ID: 9546087
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 17:24:44.717006+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:15:58.849890
License: Public Domain

QUINN, Chief Justice,
specially concurring:
I specially concur in the result. When this case was originally b'efore the court in People v. Ingram, 684 P.2d 243 (Colo.1984), I joined the dissenting opinion of Justice Neighbors on the basis that the monitoring and interception of the telephone communications by the Aurora police officers was in violation of the wiretap order because: (1) the wiretap order expressly limited the monitoring and interception to the Intelligence Division of the Lakewood Department of Public Safety; and (2) the evidence at the suppression hearing supported the district court’s determination that the Aurora police officers, in intercepting and monitoring the telephone calls, were not acting under the supervision and control of the Intelligence Division of the Lakewood Department of Public Safety and thus were in violation of the wiretap order. A majority of this court, however, upheld the validity of the wiretap order, and that decision is controlling here. Given this court’s prior opinion in this case, I concur in the majority’s determination that the scope of the intrusion authorized by a wiretap included the use of a pen register to record the date and time of outgoing calls made from the wiretapped telephone line.