Thursday, April 12, 2018

DOJ Firewalls, Taint Teams Don't Protect 4th, 6th Amendment Rights

https://www.newsmax.com/alandershowitz/trump-lawyer-raid-fbi/2018/04/11/id/853868/
By Alan Dershowitz

Many TV pundits are telling viewers not to worry about the government’s intrusion into possible lawyer/client privileged communications between President Trump and his lawyer, since prosecutors won’t get to see or use any privileged material. This is because prosecutors and FBI agents create firewalls and taint teams to preclude privileged information from being used against the client in a criminal case. But that analysis completely misses the point and ignores the distinction between the Fifth Amendment on the one hand, and the Fourth and Sixth Amendments on the other.

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