Informat Cases - Is it a search?

Question 1

US v. White (1971)

Issue, Holding

Answer 1

• Issue: Whether statements made to an informant, which were
  then recorded by outside parties, amounted to a search under the 4th Amendment
• Holding:
  1. No, police conduct here did not amount to a search
  2. no expectation of privacy in your personal conversations
  3. “If the law gives no protection to the wrongdoer whose trusted accomplice is or becomes a police agent, neither should it protect him when the same agent has recorded or transmitted the conversations.”

False Friends case