Trying to apply a wiretap law to a public place. Interesting.

From Reporters Commitee for Freedom of the Press:

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State courts have interpreted the laws to protect communications only when the parties have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and thus, where a person in a private apartment was speaking so loudly that residents of an adjoining apartment could hear without any sound enhancing device, recording without the speaker’s consent did not violate the wiretapping law. Malpas v. Maryland, 695 A.2d 588 (Md. Ct. Spec. App. 1997);



I think the Da is going to have a hard time selling that one to a judge, and I imagine the sharks, I mean attorneys, are beating down that guys door wanting to sue - let's see, a guy in KS was recently awarded $4G because the cops arrested him for disorderly conducted for flipping them off, so this ought to be worth....

The guy (and the one in my example - did I mention it was in front of his own kids?) is a first-class [fill in the blank with the derogatory term of your choice], but abuse of power is still abuse of power.