The question presented in this interlocutory appeal is whether a drive-by killing in Brockton constituted a "designated offense" occurring in "connection with organized crime," G. L. c. 272, § 99 B 4 and 7, such that oral communications of the defendant, Paulo Tavares, surreptitiously recorded by a confidential police informant, qualify for an exception to the proscription of "secret transmission or recording...
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