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COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Petitioner, v. Ida BEAUFORD, Karin Guinn, Ulysses Matthews, Michael Patrick Hayes, Cynthia O. Forcino, and Raymond Joseph Murtha, Respondents

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508 Pa. 319 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Jun 21, 1985
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COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Petitioner, v. Ida BEAUFORD, Karin Guinn, Ulysses Matthews, Michael Patrick Hayes, Cynthia O. Forcino, and Raymond Joseph Murtha, Respondents
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holding unconstitutional non-participant monitoring of private communications via "pen register" devices
holding unconstitutional non-participant monitoring of private communications via “pen register” devices
regarding suppression of information obtained from pen registers or dialed number recorders
under article I, section 8, installation and use of pen registers and dialed number recorders requires a judicial order based upon probable cause
privacy protections extend to the number dialed when making outgoing calls
“[I]t cannot be doubted that this state has the constitutional power to guard individual rights, including the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, more zealously than the federal government does under the United States Constitution.”