These two lines are the most telling:
These two lines are the most telling:
“Quite frankly, we don’t agree that every meeting in the (lawyers’) visiting rooms is privileged,” [Assistant U.S. Attorney Debra Barnett] told Robinson.
and
“It’s hard enough as is to punish prosecutorial misconduct. I don’t see OPR** doing anything in this case, and it’s almost impossible to punish an AUSA,” said the source. “I walked away from a [six figure] per year salary there, the corruption’s so bad.”
Originally shared by Marla Caldwell
This is huge.
An investigation into allegations of contraband smuggling at CCA Leavenworth, a Kansas pretrial detention center, has now exploded into a massive case involving potentially “hundreds of Sixth Amendment violations,” according to United States District Court Judge Julie Robinson. Now a Special Master will investigate the scope and breadth of numerous recordings of attorney-client conversations through video and telephone at Leavenworth, and determine what future action must be taken to remedy these violations.
http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/inquiry-launched-after-massive-6th-amendment-violation-by-kansas-us-attorney/12273
“Quite frankly, we don’t agree that every meeting in the (lawyers’) visiting rooms is privileged,” [Assistant U.S. Attorney Debra Barnett] told Robinson.
and
“It’s hard enough as is to punish prosecutorial misconduct. I don’t see OPR** doing anything in this case, and it’s almost impossible to punish an AUSA,” said the source. “I walked away from a [six figure] per year salary there, the corruption’s so bad.”
Originally shared by Marla Caldwell
This is huge.
An investigation into allegations of contraband smuggling at CCA Leavenworth, a Kansas pretrial detention center, has now exploded into a massive case involving potentially “hundreds of Sixth Amendment violations,” according to United States District Court Judge Julie Robinson. Now a Special Master will investigate the scope and breadth of numerous recordings of attorney-client conversations through video and telephone at Leavenworth, and determine what future action must be taken to remedy these violations.
http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/inquiry-launched-after-massive-6th-amendment-violation-by-kansas-us-attorney/12273
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