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Law Practice

Jun. 2, 2012

Dos and don’ts: electronic surveillance evidence

Learn some tips for effective, legal surveillance, and how to know when you're being surveilled. By Thomas Martin of Martin Investigative Services


By Thomas Martin


Legal surveillance can effectively support evidence for either the plaintiff or defendant and provide the means to exonerate a suspect in a criminal case. However, alarms should immediately go off in an attorney's mind when electronic eavesdropping is suggested after every other investigative approach is exhausted. Using bugs and hidden camera devices - available on the black market and most recently, on hundreds of Internet sites - is a blat...

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