District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania March 27, 1978, Crim. 77-412 (United States v. Cianfrani)

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OPINION

EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.

I.

Preliminary Statement

This opinion

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addresses the question whether a hearing on a defendant’s motion to suppress as evidence the tapes of intercepted oral or wire communications and on a corresponding Government motion to authenticate those recordings for use at trial must, at the request of the defendant, be held

in camera

or, conversely,