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NJLJ: Feds can review criminal defense lawyer's files with taint team

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

In yesterday's New Jersey Law Journal: Federal Judge Rules Government Can Scour All of Lawyer's Seized Computer Records: A federal judge has given prosecutors the go-ahead to review computer records seized from the office of a criminal defense lawyer, even if it means looking at files of clients who were not targets of the search. U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler says the procedure proposed by prosecutors for the review of the records provided adequate safeguards to protect other client files and privileged materials. Kugler's ruling stems from a May 8 search of Donald Manno's Cherry Hill, N.J., law office by FBI agents executing a warrant that authorized the seizure of documents from Aug. 1, 2006, to date that pertained to 43 individuals and entities, including alleged organized crime figure Nicodemo Scarfo...continue to full post

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