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ABAJ.com: "Fla. Prosecutor?s Office Disqualified for Listening to Lawyer Phone Calls"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

From ABAJournal.com, posted 10 minutes ago: Fla. Prosecutor’s Office Disqualified for Listening to Lawyer Phone Calls, linking to the Miami Herald: A Florida judge has disqualified the entire Broward State Attorney's Office from trying a murder case, after learning that two prosecutors had listened to recordings of the jailed defendant's phone calls to his attorney. Defendant Luis Martinez's fair trial rights were violated by the eavesdropping, Circuit Judge Susan Lebow held yesterday. Today she sent jurors in the case home for two months while the situation is resolved, after granting a government motion to put the trial on hold, reports the Miami Herald. The state's attorney's office is asking the Florida attorney general for help filing an appeal; it contends that Martinez waived his attorney-client privilege by agreeing to have the calls recorded...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).