Defense attorneys are challenging a policy at the Eastern District U.S. Attorney’s Office that considers inmate-attorney emails sent through a government-operated system as not privileged and fair game for government review.
In June, James McGovern, the criminal division chief in the Eastern District office, wrote the Federal Defenders of New York to apprise the organization of its policy regarding emails between Metropolitan Detention Center inmates and their attorneys transmitted through a system dubbed TRULINCS.
