Charles Roland Cheatham, aka Chi-Chi v. United States
1. May the government obtain a wiretap to investigate whether an individual is a member of an alleged conspiracy, by relying in part upon evidence from the conspiracy and not pertaining to the individual in question, when the government otherwise would fail to establish necessity and probable cause to wiretap that individual?
2. Was the government's confusing organization of its wiretap affidavit, which obscured the lack of necessity and probable cause for a wiretap of Petitioner, a "material misstatement or omission" in the affidavit, and/or did it effect an impermissible "transfer" of a showing of necessity from one telephone to another?
May the government obtain a wiretap to investigate whether an individual is a member of an alleged conspiracy, by relying in part upon evidence from the conspiracy and not pertaining to the individual in question, when the government otherwise would fail to establish necessity and probable cause to wiretap that individual?