State v. Bember

Summary

The court affirmed the defendant's convictions, rejecting challenges to the admission and use of cooperating witnesses' testimony, the reliability determination under the jailhouse-informant statute, and the denial of suppression. It held that the defendant waived his challenge to questioning about the cooperation agreements, that the challenged truthfulness provisions did not constitute improper vouching, that any other alleged vouching did not deny a fair trial, and that the reliability hearing and determination were within the trial court's discretion. The court also held that the defendant had no subjective expectation of privacy in a monitored and recorded nonprivileged jail call, so neither the recording nor the firearm discovered through information from the call required suppression.