Speedly t1_jd7xr0b wrote on March 22, 2023 at 2:12 PM

Did the Justice Department rep just hand the judge a piece of paper that said, "of course he did?"

I feel like "convinces" is too strong a word for this. It's like telling someone that fire is hot, and then claiming that you "convinced" them of it.

SkullLeader t1_jd89iso wrote on March 22, 2023 at 3:30 PM

Call it what you will, but prosecutors apparently gave the judge sufficient evidence to make him rule that the crime-fraud exception to attorney/client privilege should apply in this instance. That normally requires something more than just the prosecutor's say-so, and most judges (who are themselves attorneys, after all) pretty much consider the privilege to be close to sacrosanct - so setting it aside is not something they normally take lightly.