"Wiretapping" Charges May Be Oddest Ever Recorded

netbuzz writes "Guy kicks up a fuss at a Massachusetts car-repair shop, employees call the police, guy allegedly gives them a hard time, too, and they charge the fellow with a variety of expectable charges: disorderly conduct, resisting arrest ... and 'unlawful wiretapping and possessing a device for wiretapping.' The device? A digital voice recorder. Massachusetts is one of only 12 states that prohibit the recording of a conversation unless all parties to it are aware it's being recorded."

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Not pretentious

[cromar]

"Fly-over states?" No, that's not a pretentious phrase.

Re:Lie to me!

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

And then you get executed by the state of Texas. c.f. the "arsonist" who "killed" his wife and children. They stuck a needle in him and killed him.

Sucks for him, great for the rest of us because it's a concrete example of an innocent man being falsely executed.

That prick Scalia thinks that there's never been a case of an innocent person being executed on death row before, otherwise (he claims) people would be shouting about it from the rooftops. While that is a ridiculous assumption, hardly worthy of an average teenager's ability to reason, much less a supreme court justice, he's finally got the arbitrarily high level of proof that he required.

Re:You're wrong Shakrai.

[amicusNYCL]

http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/michigan-recording-law [citmedialaw.org] since you're too lazy to attempt to debunk me, like a typical 7-digit slashdotter.

Scroll up, I already debunked you replying to someone else (using your same source, no less).

Feel free to click the link in that article also and follow it to the mi.gov site, where you'll read this:

750.539c Eavesdropping upon private conversation.

Sec. 539c.

Any person who is present or who is not present during a private conversation and who wilfully uses any device to eavesdrop upon the conversation without the consent of all parties thereto ... is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in a state prison for not more than 2 years or by a fine of not more than $2,000.00, or both.

Remember, I'm the guy that kicked EA's ass over the Spore DRM issue.

Why would I remember that? I don't know who you are. I remember a lot of people writing negative reviews for Spore on Amazon, if all of those reviewers were you, then congratulations.

Back to reality though, how does it feel that Wikipedia is right about this, and you're wrong?

Also, just because I want to see what happens, Michigan cops are liars.

Re:You're wrong Shakrai.

[Khyber]

Umm the case specifically cited states "In Michigan it's not illegal to record a conversation in which you are a participant." That is the final ruling.

Read the judge's opinion and maybe you'll have a clue.