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Administrative/Regulatory

Mar. 20, 2006

Marrying Your Attorney Doesn't Protect Letters

SANTA ANA - If you're in prison, marrying your lawyer won't protect your letters home from prying government eyes. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that personal, nonlegal portions of letters from an accused leader of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang to his attorney-wife can be read by federal prosecutors even though the prisoner had addressed the letters "confidential" and "attorney at law."

        

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