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Government

Nov. 1, 2006

U.S. Attorney Won't Defend Jail Phone Tap

SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. attorney's office here has given up trying to prove it did not violate attorney-client privilege by listening in on jailhouse conversations between an inmate and his lawyer.

By Amelia Hansen
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. attorney's office here has given up trying to prove it did not violate attorney-client privilege by listening in on jailhouse conversations between an inmate and his lawyer.
      Instead, the office quietly dismissed its indictment against a man who was arrested in 2005 on a felony weapons possession charge and ...

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