INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ Indiana's Supreme Court justices are weighing whether a judge exceeded her authority by barring all trial testimony from police officers who eavesdropped on a murder suspect's conversations with his attorney.
The justices heard arguments Wednesday in the case of a northern Indiana man charged in his girlfriend's fatal shooting.
Court records say several officers and a deputy prosecutor overheard parts of a conversation Brian Taylor had with his attorney at Michigan City's police department.
A LaPorte County judge excluded as evidence a gun officers found based on their eavesdropping. She also barred all trial testimony from those officers after they invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the eavesdropping.
The Indiana Court of Appeals found in June that the judge went too far in barring all the officers' testimony.
