Brief filed: 01/03/2020
Documents
State v. Jackson
Superior Court of New Jersey; Case No. 083286
Prior Decision
Decision below 460 N.J. Super. 258 (App.Div. July 19, 2019)
Argument(s)
The state violates the Fourth Amendment and article 1, paragraph 7 when it obtains access to an incarcerated person’s recorded telephone conversations without a warrant. Jackson had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the calls he made to his mother from jail. Jackson did not forfeit all privacy rights in his telephone conversations by exposing them to jail staff for security monitoring purposes. Jackson did not consent to the State accessing his calls for its use in his prosecution. Requiring prosecutors to secure warrants in order to access jail calls is the only adequate way to protect the constitutional and policy interests the calls implicate.
Author(s)
Alexander Shalom and Jeanne LoCicero, American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey Foundation, Newark, NJ; Sharon Bittner Kean, Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey, Madison, NJ; Daniella Gordon, Hyland Levin Shapiro LLP, Marlton, NJ.
