{"id":2276,"date":"2008-07-19T17:01:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T14:47:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T14:47:36","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2276","title":{"rendered":"News: TX criminal defense lawyer resists subpoena for papers in his office, so judge issues a search warrant for the lawyer&#8217;s office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move dangerous in both its Fourth and Sixth Amendment implications, a Collin County Texas district judge issued a search warrant for a criminal defense lawyer&#8217;s office when the lawyer resisted a subpoena. The prosecutor apparently seeks to disqualify defense counsel from the case so he can testify as a witness. For a news article see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc5i.com\/news\/16920841\/detail.html?rss=dfw&amp;psp=news\">Detectives Seize Documents From Murder-For-Hire Suspect&#8217;s Attorney<\/a> from Channel 5 in Dallas\/Ft. Worth.<\/p>\n<p>Blogs are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baumbach.org\/b2evolution\/blogs\/index.php?title=nbc5_detectives_seize_documents_from_mur&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">Collin County Observer<\/a> (with background), <a href=\"http:\/\/gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/collin-county-judge-approves-search.html\">Grits for Breakfast<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2008\/07\/19\/whats-the-rusch-to-search-a-law-office.aspx\">Simple Justice<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This is almost Kafkaesque. Don&#8217;t like the defense lawyer? Search his office and disqualify him to make him a witness to your case. Except that it isn&#8217;t supposed to work that way in the United States. The law recognizes this predicament already; assuming the evidence gets in at all. Except maybe in Texas where anything is possible, operating under the bizarro world of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, a court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2157733\/\">so reactionary<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tshaonline.org\/handbook\/online\/articles\/TT\/jpt1.html\">procedural<\/a> that SCOTUS reverses it as much or more as the purportedly liberal Ninth Circuit.<\/p>\n<p>As the Talking Heads say, more on this as it develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2276\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}