{"id":62169,"date":"2025-10-21T07:52:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62169"},"modified":"2025-10-21T07:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:52:53","slug":"ca5-a-c-privilege-review-of-seized-email-doesnt-have-to-be-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62169","title":{"rendered":"CA5: A-C privilege review of seized email doesn&#8217;t have to be perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this bank fraud case, the attorney-client privilege review of defendant\u2019s email was \u201cimperfect\u201d but not so bad that the indictment should be dismissed. It clearly doesn\u2019t rise to the level of \u201coutrageous.\u201d Yes, the review could have been done differently, and thus better, but what they did caused no prejudice at all. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/23\/23-30641-CV0.pdf\">United States v. Ryan<\/a>, 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 27161 (5th Cir. Oct. 17, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SANE interview was enough for probable cause for the DNA search warrant. In re C.P.C., 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 8067 (Tex. App. \u2013 Houston (1st Dist.) Oct. 21, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finding firearms justified extending the stop. United States v. McMillan, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 205885 (M.D. Ga. Oct. 20, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s name was nowhere on the paperwork for this rented car. While sorting this out, the drug dog arrived and alerted. The extension of the stop was reasonable for the paperwork concerns. State v. Martinez, 2025-Ohio-4786 (12th Dist. Oct. 20, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this bank fraud case, the attorney-client privilege review of defendant\u2019s email was \u201cimperfect\u201d but not so bad that the indictment should be dismissed. It clearly doesn\u2019t rise to the level of \u201coutrageous.\u201d Yes, the review could have been done &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62169\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,25,114,20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna","category-e-mail","category-privileges","category-probable-cause","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62170,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62169\/revisions\/62170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}