Wiretap amendment rejected
By ERICA YOUNG
West Virginia Press Association Capitol Reporter
CHARLESTON, W.VA — Delegate Pat McGeehan, R-Hancock, urged the rest of the W.Va. House Judiciary Committee to agree to his proposed amendment this morning, but noted that he “always maintains low expectations in the legislature.”
McGeehan presented his amendment to the Committee Substitute to SB 61, last week, a bill to amend and reenact §62-1D-8 of the Code of West Virginia, which added a new list of crimes for which a prosecutor could “apply for a court order authorizing interception of communications.”
Will Sorensen, counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, explained he had created a strike and insert amendment because…