Prosecutors to Use Phone Tap Evidence in Walker Spy Trial
A federal judge ruled today that prosecutors at John A. Walker Jr.’s espionage trial may use information from wiretaps on his telephone.
U.S. District Judge Alexander Harvey II said there was probable cause to believe that Walker was operating as an agent of a foreign power when his telephone was tapped from mid-April until his arrest May 20. The tap had been approved by a judge under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
He also refused to throw out indictments of Walker and his son, Michael, on the basis of pre-indictment publicity, saying he had never heard of an indictment being dismissed on the basis of pretrial publicity.
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