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Lawyer says seized items are protected by attorney-client privilege
FBI raids recovered documents and devices from Michael Cohen
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/13/trump-cohen-attorney-client-privilege-seized-documents
An attorney for Donald Trump asked a judge on Friday to let the president have a say on which records seized by the FBI from his personal lawyer Michael Cohen should be kept secret from federal prosecutors.
Joanna Hendon, who said she had been hired by Trump late on Wednesday, argued that Trump should be able to object to the disclosure of records relating to his long-time legal representation by Cohen.
As a privilege holder he has an acute interest in these proceedings and in the manner that these materials are reviewed, Hendon said at Manhattan federal court.
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Hendon persuaded Judge Kimba Wood to delay until Monday a hearing where Cohens lawyers were to argue for a restraining order temporarily banning authorities from inspecting the records.
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)What a small world. Great judge for our side.
iwillalwayswonderwhy
(2,602 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)Which means Bwahahaha..behind a discrete hand giggles for Judge Wood.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)proceedings and investigations.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)I am not surprised by this at all, and would expect the client to assert a right to assert the privileges on a document by document basis. The FBI will argue that is what the taint team does and Trump's lawyers will demand a right to protect the privilege unless the exception can be shown in each case. Surely nobody thought this would go easy for the FBI.
Freethinker65
(10,023 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)While headline writers aren't the greatest legal analysts, it is Trump's right to assert the privilege claim as to any particular item in question. That claim can certainly be argued over on a piecemeal basis.
So, it's not a question of Trump being asked to "vet" the documents, but, yes, he can certainly raise objections in relation to them.
Believe it or not, even if a person is a real asshole, they get the same rights as anyone else in legal proceedings.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)review the records in camera with the attorneys for all three parties. That way the parties can object to the individual documents that a privilege is claimed on and the magistrate can rule on whether the privilege attaches.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)There's gonna be some juicy damning evidence in there
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Since Chohen has probably viewed himself as invincible, I doubt that the Trump docs / tapes / whatever were held separately in an undisclosed location. Knowing Cohen, they were most likely in a folder on his desktop marked "Trump."
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Another in a long string of desperate motions that will be denied
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Tiggeroshii
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TheBlackAdder
(28,205 posts)brooklynite
(94,585 posts)I understand Special Prosecutors love those...