Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-73not60

§2515 Prohibition of Use as Evidence of Intercepted Wire or Oral Communications

Title 18 › Part I— CRIMES › Chapter 119— WIRE AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS INTERCEPTION AND INTERCEPTION OF ORAL COMMUNICATIONS › § 2515

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Bars courts and other government bodies from using secretly recorded phone, electronic, or spoken conversations—or any evidence from them—as proof in trials, hearings, or other proceedings if sharing those communications would break this law.

Full Legal Text

Title 18, §2515

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Whenever any wire or oral communication has been intercepted, no part of the contents of such communication and no evidence derived therefrom may be received in evidence in any trial, hearing, or other proceeding in or before any court, grand jury, department, officer, agency, regulatory body, legislative committee, or other authority of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision thereof if the disclosure of that information would be in violation of this chapter.

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Citation

18 U.S.C. § 2515

Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60