A Massachusetts man was arrested under Massachusetts wiretap law and accused of aiding the escape of a prisoner and disturbing the peace. The man Simon Glik had used his cell phone to record police arresting a suspect on the Boston Common.
Glik contended that his did not make a secret recording as forbidden by the wiretap law, did not interfere with the police arrest and had a First Amendment right to record the event. -db
From an analysis from the Citizen Media Law Project, June 8, 2011 by Timothy Lamoureux.