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New Decade: New "Attorney As Government Informant" Story

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

?Posing as a criminal attorney to get a defendant to talk ?freely' of his criminal past screams of entrapment and will turn the U.S. justice system on its ear if this is allowed to happen.?That's not the statement of a criminal defense lawyer, prosecutor, or judge. It's the statement of defendant Shannon Williams.According to Omaha World-Herald reporter Todd Cooper, that's exactly what happened.More than 30 times this year, investigators say, Shannon Williams orchestrated a multimillion-dollar marijuana ring from inside the Douglas County Jail.In one-on-one sessions with a jail visitor, Williams would use the visitor's cell phone to call associates and instruct them on how to divvy up the gobs of marijuana and money his operation was taking in...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).