Do we know that?
Honestly, I could be wrong, but I think that is an assumption based on anthony speak.
Personally, I have not heard that to be a fact, and I doubt it's true.
Why? Because KC lied and lied and lied, and etc... so they had the suspect.
I (please prove me wrong) don't think they tapped the phones. I will apologize if anyone can show me proof.
I have not seen that. (but I have not seen alot)
I will find the thread for you, but yes, we know that for certain, it was in one of the doc dumps the police had authorization to "pen register record and trace George, Cindy and Lee' s phones." Interesting. I thought they likely were, but never knew for certain. This video is from many months go, but I had never seen it. When you get to section 3:40 you will see the authorization form the home land lines and cell phones of George, Cindy and Lee's cells.
YouTube- Casey Anthony Docs Include Text Messages, Reports
__________________http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y27Ki1e4a1w ( August 7th WESH news) It says the order was "sealed" at the time.They didn't record the conversations, just the numbers and locations but they were monitoring who called in and out of those phones.Title 18 of the United States Code defines a pen register as:
a device or process which records or decodes dialing, routing, addressing, or signaling information transmitted by an instrument or facility from which a wire or electronic communication is transmitted, provided, however, that such information shall not include the contents of any communication, but such term does not include any device or process used by a provider or customer of a wire or electronic communication service for billing, or recording as an incident to billing, for communications services provided by such provider or any device or process used by a provider or customer of a wire communication service for cost accounting or other like purposes in the ordinary course of its business.[1]
This is the current definition of a Pen Register, as amended by passage of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act. The original statutory definition of a pen register was created in 1984 as part of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. That defined a 'Pen Register' as:
A device which records or decodes electronic or other impulses which identify the numbers dialed or otherwise transmitted on the telephone line to which such device is dedicated.
A pen register is similar to a trap and trace device. A trap and trace device would show what numbers had called a specific telephone, i.e. all incoming phone numbers. A pen register rather would show what numbers a phone had called, i.e. all outgoing phone numbers. The two terms are often used in concert, especially in the context of Internet communications. They are often jointly referred to as "Pen Register or Trap and Trace devices," to reflect the fact that the same program will probably do both functions in the modern era, and the distinction is not that important. The term 'pen register' is often used to describe both pen registers and trap and trace devices.
[edit] Background
In Katz v. United States (1967), the United States Supreme Court established its "reasonable expectation of privacy" test. It overturned Olmstead v. United States and held that wiretaps were unconstitutional searches, because there was a reasonable expectation that the communication would be private. The government was then required to get a warrant to execute a wiretap.
Ten years later the Supreme Court held that a pen register is not a search because the "petitioner voluntarily conveyed numerical information to the telephone company." Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735, 744 (1979). Since the defendant had disclosed the dialed numbers to the telephone company so they could connect his call, he did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the numbers he dialed. The court did not distinguish between disclosing the numbers to a human operator or just the automatic equipment used by the telephone company.
The Smith decision left pen registers completely outside constitutional protection. If there was to be any privacy protection, it would have to be enacted by Congress as statutory privacy law.
