Investigating A Major Drug Trafficking Operation Within My...

According to the scenario I’m a police officer on a task force investigating a major drug trafficking operation within my jurisdiction. As an investigator on this assignment I have been issued a wiretap order by a judge in my jurisdiction in order to listen to the suspect’s phone. While listening to some phone conversations I overhear the suspect and others talking on the phone but it has not been yet determined if they are involved in the drug ring or not but I do overhear some evidence related to some other criminal activity. Now the wiretap was done in order to get certain information on the drug dealing but there was other information obtain in the wiretapping about some other criminal acts which can fall under the forbidden fruit doctrine because I never entered the home and everything was heard. Therefore, this could be considered new found evidence that may led to an arrest in some more serious crimes from the person or persons. 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