{"id":7330,"date":"2015-05-30T17:43:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T23:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=7330"},"modified":"2015-05-30T17:43:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T23:43:54","slug":"recording-telephone-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=7330","title":{"rendered":"Recording Telephone Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent oral argument, Judge Wallach asked counsel about a recording that had been made of a telephone call \u00a0without the other side&#8217;s consent. Apparently, the telephone call was presented as evidence at trial. \u00a0As you may know, states take different positions on whether notice must be given to the other party of a telephone conversation when a recording is being made. Thirty-eight states are single-party-consent states, whereas twelve states are two-party-consent states. \u00a0Judge Wallach emphasized that regardless of whether a state is a lenient single-party-consent state, that state&#8217;s bar opinions might take a stronger position. \u00a0In such an instance, the state bar opinions trump the criminal statute for purposes of controlling conduct of lawyers within the state.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to a presentation on Colorado law that illustrates the issue in more detail: \u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cobar.org\/repository\/Inside_Bar\/FamilyLaw\/September%202010\/Think%20Before%20You%20Push%20Record.pdf\">Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent oral argument, Judge Wallach asked counsel about a recording that had been made of a telephone call \u00a0without the other side&#8217;s consent. Apparently, the telephone call was presented as evidence at trial. \u00a0As you may know, states take different positions on whether notice must be given to the other party of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7333,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7330\/revisions\/7333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}