Lawyer-Client Eavesdropping
After the Broward County, Florida sheriffs spent two weeks recording privileged inmate-attorney phone conversations, one startled lawyer complained, and the inmate-attorney recording was dutifully shut down. BCS officials claimed that their electronic snooping was the result of a glitch in the system.” Attorneys and defendants thought otherwise, and have sued. WANDA J. DEMARZO for the Miami Herald
While many jails and prisons monitor personal phone calls, a practice that has been mostly upheld in Federal Courts, lawyer client calls are another matter. But even the practice of snooping on personal calls is being legally tested again in Baton Rouge, LA., where defense attorneys want to toss out telephone recordings made without a warrant. AMY SHERMAN for the Miami Herald.