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tap March 28, 2000
CARSON CITY (AP) - A dispute over a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
wiretap in a murder case comes before the Nevada Supreme Court this week.
The seven-member court, which holds hearings Wednesday and Thursday,
also will examine whether Clark County can keep secret part of its
cellular telephone records.
Also up for a review is a dispute over a $1.8 million slot jackpot that
International Game Technology withheld from a California man.
In the wiretap case Wednesday, Heath M. Illiescu was charged with
hiring a man for $20,000 to shoot Bruce Ray Fisher, his business partner
in a sports information betting service.
Police got approval to tap the Illiescu
phone. But District Judge Joseph Pavlikowski
suppressed the wiretap evidence, saying police didn't cite proper grounds
for getting the approval.
The Clark County district attorney's office appealed the decision to
the Supreme Court.
In the open-records case, also to be heard Wednesday, the Las Vegas
Review-Journal is asking Clark County to supply the telephone records of
the Clark County Commission, the county manager and the director of
aviation from Jan. 1, 1996, to Dec. 31, 1997.
The newspaper said it wanted the records as part of an investigation
into government waste and lobbying and influence of government officials.
The county agreed to supply the cellular phone records but blotted out the last four digits of
each outgoing call. The county argued that the newspaper would see the
total monthly expenses, each call made that month, the length of the call,
whether it was incoming or outgoing and the charge for each call.
The newspaper has maintained the records are public and should be
released.
The slot machine appeal, also on tap
Wednesday, involves Cengiz Sengel, challenging IGT and the Silver Legacy
in Reno over a disputed $1.8 million jackpot hit on Sept. 21, 1996.
Sengel, of Belmont, Calif. was playing Quartermania when the jackpot
symbols lined up and the jackpot light started flashing. IGT refused
payment on grounds there was a security malfunction and the symbols were
not properly lined up.
Sengel said there was a malfunction but it was on the door to the cash
box of the bill validator and that had nothing to do with the reels lining
up for a jackpot.
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