Illegal Evesdropping !

How stupid is our legal system.

The Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a state law prohibits parents from eavesdropping on a child's phone conversations. What happened was that a mother pressed the speaker button on a phone in the other room to listen in on her daughter talking to a 17 year old boy convicted of a robbery. "The court ruled that the daughter and her boyfriend had a reasonable expectation of privacy on the phone. Washington state law prohibits intercepting or recording conversations without the consent of all participants."

The kids were freggin GUILTY but just cause the MOM listened in, these kids get a new trial. Huh? I don't give a shit how information was obtained. Guilt is guilt. The definition does NOT change whether or not someone listened in on a phone conversation. The F.B.I. does this all the time putting taps on phone lines and LISTENING in. How do you think John Gotti went to jail? It was the F.B.I. doing basically a professional eavesdrop.

What needs to happen is that this A-hole who committed the robbery needs to be convicted without having another trial. Why waste more taxpayers money trying a guy that is already guilty.

These laws need to change. Eavesdropping, hidden cameras, phone taps, all should be in play to get the facts on the table which will make the legal system much better. But, since we have morons running this country, the lesson learned should be that if you are gonna commit a crime and want to discuss it, make sure you do it on a cell phone where there is not another line.