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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Mueller violated Michael Cohen's constitutional rights just by seizing his records says Dershowitz

A famed Harvard legal scholar is raising concerns about the Justice Department's ability to responsibly handle some documents seized Monday from Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's offices.

Among the scooped-up papers, and lurking on phones and hard drives, is likely to be a cache of material that's covered by attorney-client privilege.

Prosecutors are not permitted access to those files, and the DOJ's standard practice is to set up a 'taint team' – a group of agents and lawyers not connected to the Cohen case or the special counsel probe into all things Russia – to decide what they can see.

But 'taint teams don't work,' Alan Dershowitz told DailyMail.com on Tuesday, because seizing the material in the first place was a violation of Cohen's constitutional rights – even if it's never used in court.

Dershowitz was at the White House on Tuesday afternoon in advance of a dinner appointment with the president, according to two officials.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sure he did, but the government and democrats don't care. This is why we need guns.

Anonymous said...

What is 'taint'?

Anonymous said...

Duh.....

Anonymous said...

Mueller is a Government employee. He can't be challenged,

Anonymous said...

They are desperate to take out Trump and won't let something as trivial as the Constitution stop them. Trump is investigating the FBI / Obama spy gate scandal and they want to knee cap Trump before he exposes them.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
What is 'taint'?

April 11, 2018 at 1:23 PM

Now that question is from left field.