NJ ‘fat defense’ appeal impacts wiretapping rules
HACKENSACK, N.J. —
An appeals court has ruled that police in New Jersey can wiretap a suspect in another state without obtaining a warrant from the judge of that state.
The Record of Woodland Park reports (http://bit.ly/J1rjin) that Thursday’s ruling also confirms the murder conviction of Edward Ates, a Florida man who was sentenced to life in prison after failing to persuade a jury of the argument that he was too fat to have committed the 2006 murder of his son-in-law.
Ates’ attorney, Walter Lesnevich, tells the newspaper he plans to appeal Thursday’s ruling to the state Supreme Court.
Ates was convicted in 2009 of fatally shooting his former son-in-law. An investigation by Bergen County prosecutors included wiretapping calls Ates made from Florida to his mother and sister in Louisiana.
Article source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/17/2804814/nj-fat-defense-appeal-impacts.html
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