Ex-judge: Romania ruling could collapse murder trials

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A top Romanian legal expert says a court ruling that the country’s prosecutors obtained evidence illegally could collapse murder and child pornography trials.
Romania’s Constitutional Court ruled this week that secret protocols signed between the Prosecutor’s office and the Romanian Intelligence Service in 2009 and 2016 were unconstitutional. The system helped prosecutors obtain evidence through phone taps and other electronic surveillance, Prose