The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a heart-to-heart chat between an inmate and a visitor can be taped by authorities and used as evidence against the defendant in a criminal trial.
“California law now permits law enforcement officers to monitor and record unprivileged communications between inmates and their visitors to gather evidence of crime,” wrote Justice Janice Rogers Brown for the majority in People v. Loyd, 02 C.D.O.S. 3895.
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