Inmate Visit Recordings • Motion to Exclude • Wiretap Act • “Telephone Call”

Commonwealth v. Fant, PICS Case No. 16-1249 (Pa. Sept. 28, 2016) Donohue, J.; Baer, J. (dissenting) (32 pages).

Recorded conversations between an inmate and his visitors on a telephone-like apparatus were properly suppressed pursuant to the Wiretap Act where the act only authorized recordings of inmate telephone calls. Reversed.