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COMMONWEALTH v. WILSON

405 Mass. 248 (1989)

540 N.E.2d 159

COMMONWEALTH vs. ROBERT S. WILSON (and twenty-six companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

June 26, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Lu, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Robert E. Lee, Jr.

Stephanie Martin Glennon, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Albert C. Bielitz, Jr., for Robert S. Wilson & another, was present but did not argue.

Ronald J. Chisholm, for Pamela Toy, was present but did not argue.

Bernard Grossberg, for Frederick I. Pidge, was present but did not argue.

Peter Costanza, Andrew H. Good, John Reinstein, & Martin C. Gideonse, for Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

NOLAN, J.

The subject of this appeal is the denial of a motion to suppress the fruits of intercepted wire communications (wiretapping) from two telephones located in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Cedar Junction. An application for such interception had been granted by a judge in the Superior Court in connection with an investigation of drug trafficking in the prison. The defendants appealed the denial of the motion to suppress to a single justice of...

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