In a bitter fight over attorney-client privilege, federal prosecutors have staked out a position they'd normally chide their opponents for taking: blaming the victim. The new tactic comes in litigation over whether federal prosecutors may listen to a jailed defendant's phone calls with counsel. A prosecutor in the San Francisco U.S. Attorney's Office upped the ante last week: She said attorney Ian Loveseth provided ineffective assistance to client Lloyd Jamison by talking on the phone.
August 30, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
In a bitter fight over attorney-client privilege, federal prosecutors have staked out a position they’d normally chide their opponents for taking: blaming the victim.
The new tactic comes in litigation over whether federal prosecutors may listen to a jailed defendant’s phone calls with counsel.
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