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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida County Sheriff's office recoreded Lawyer-Client talk & gave prosecutors
the tape or DVD and may have recorded nearly 2000 other Lawyer Client conversations at the jail.
If true then the DOJ should start crawling all over this corrupt Sheriff and his Deputies.
From the site:
After investigating, prosecutors issued an 11-page report that found 1,905 attorney-client privileged conversations may have been recorded since April 2011.
The report showed only four of those were sent to the state attorneys office and another one was given to a detective, and just two of the recordings partially viewed and then turned off.
More here:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/absolutely-crazy-what-this-sheriffs-office-was-caught-doing-is-expected-to-cause-legal-chaos/
elleng
(131,118 posts)GRABBING them and throwing them into PRISON, NOW! (And of course disbarring all of the attorneys.)
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)elleng
(131,118 posts)from prosecuting Johnson, and hes also seeking the dismissal of all charges against him.
Prosecutors claim they watched only a few seconds of the video before turning off the recording.
Oonk argues that prosecutors failed to notify him immediately of the recording, but assistant state attorneys disagree and say they offered defense attorneys an opportunity to destroy the file. . .
Every defense attorney in the county who has a client whos spent any time in the jail is going to have to make some sort of request, some sort of motion to determine whether any of their conversations have been compromised.
That could cause chaos in the countys criminal justice system, he said.
There are some clients that have taken significant sentences on cases, and if their conversations have been compromised, perhaps those pleas have to be set aside, or those trials the verdicts have to be set aside, Kirshy said. . .
AND: Charlotte County Sheriffs Office, which operates the jail where Johnson is being held, had sent them a recording of at least one of the suspects conversations with his public defender.
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)I agree that it should be a life sentence felony and by doing nothing about or using the privileged material wouldn't that make the prosecutor an accomplice worthy of jail as well? (Not just disbarment)
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)They will do whatever they want to do regardless of the trivial fact that it may be illegal.
Then they will worry about coming up with a pitiful alibi if and when they get caught.