Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied June 5, 1991.
OPINION OF THE COURT
COWEN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns the admissibility in a criminal trial of statements and conversations recorded by a witness wearing a concealed body recorder. The central issue is whether the witness' cooperation was voluntary or coerced. The district court excluded the evidence because it found that the witness' free will was overborne by his fear that he would...
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