Lawyers for James "Whitey" Bulger on Monday won a spat with prosecutors over whether the accused mobster could be called an informant, after asking the court to allow them to counter the hammering their client is talking in the press.

U.S. District Judge Denise Casper sustained a Bulger lawyer’s objection after a prosecutor asked Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General agent James Marra whether he had “any doubt” that Bulger was an FBI informant.