ALBANY – A deeply divided Court of Appeals recognized a new exception to the state’s illegal eavesdropping statute Tuesday, ruling that parents can surreptitiously record conversations involving their minor children if it is in the children’s best interests.
In other cases, the court ruled a man convicted of murder should not get a new trial because a few spectators wore T-shirts with the picture of his alleged victim, and that the rights of Rikers Island inmates are not violated by the routine sharing of the contents of their private telephone calls with New York City prosecutors.
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