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Admissibility of the Tapes and Transcripts
From the Electronic Surveillance of Heller's Cafe
At trial, respondent sought to introduce into
evidence the tape recordings and transcripts of
conversations that were intercepted during the electronic
surveillance of Heller's Cafe, described above.
Petitioners object to the tape recordings and transcripts
of the intercepted conversations and to certain other
evidence that they claim was derived from the intercepted
conversations, consisting of the testimony of various
Government agents about the search conducted at Heller's
Cafe on December 17, 1986. We refer to all of the evidence
that is the subject of petitioners' objection as "the
intercepted communications".
Petitioners' position is that 18 U.S.C. section 2515
(1970), a statutory suppression provision, enacted as part
of the Federal wiretapping statute, Title III of the
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, Pub. L.
90-351, 82 Stat. 211-225, prohibits the reception of the
intercepted communications into evidence in these
proceedings. Title 18 U.S.C. section 2515 provides as
follows:
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