California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Murtha, 1 Cal.Rptr.2d 788, 235 Cal.App.3d 1688 (Cal. App. 1991):
2 For example, in United States v. Chavez (1974) 416 U.S. 562, 94 S.Ct. 1849, 40 L.Ed.2d 380 the court permitted the use of information gathered through the use of a wiretap despite a technical violation of the Act. In that case, the application for the wiretap erroneously indicated the Assistant Attorney General had authorized the intercept, when in fact the Attorney General had not done so. The court held suppression was unnecessary because a statutorily eligible person had in fact authorized the wiretap application. (416 U.S. at pp. 579-580, 94 S.Ct. at 1858.)
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