Federal Judiciary

Guerrero v. Hestin (Cal. Ct. App. - Oct. 21, 2020)

By Shaun Martin

"In 2014, a single Riverside County Superior Court judge signed 602 orders authorizing wiretaps. To put that in perspective, all other judges in the state authorized 345 wiretaps that year. And the 602 wiretaps that year comprised approximately 17 percent of all the wiretaps authorized by all the state and federal courts in the nation. The next year, that same judge and one other authorized 640 wiretaps, the rest of the state authorized 505, and the 640 wiretaps comprised roughly 15 percent of all wiretaps in the country."

Wow.

Like the Court of Appeal, that facially seems to me to indicate that something might well have been wrong with the way those wiretaps were submitted and approved.

Very wrong.

Full post as published by California Appellate Report on October 21, 2020 (boomark / email).