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Nov. 7, 2018

Wiretapped individuals want answers in court case

Two people never charged with a crime are still seeking answers to why the Riverside County Superior Court issued warrants to wiretap their phones in 2015, along with more than 600 other wiretap warrants, mostly authorized by a single, now recently-retired judge.

Wiretapped individuals want answers in court case
Now-retired Riverside County Superior Court Judge Helios Hernandez issued five times as many wiretap warrants as any other judge in the nation in 2015, according to a state attorney general's office report.

Two people never charged with a crime are still seeking answers to why the Riverside County Superior Court issued warrants to wiretap their phones in 2015, along with more than 600 other wiretap warrants, mostly authorized by a single, now recently-retired judge.

Now, three years later, attorneys Stephanie Lacambra of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Cristina M. Salvato of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP have file...

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