Sentences with phrase «taint team»

The government opposes such an appointment, insisting that a so - called taint team of prosecutors could do the initial document review effectively.

We worried if the fluoridation of water was a Commie plot and even changed the name of the Cincinnati Reds to Redlegs so as to not taint the team and city with any Pinko associations.

She was the «taint team leader,» a veteran member of the Civil Rights division tapped to ensure the rights of a police officer — in this case, Bowen — were not violated during the course of the federal investigation.

To avoid such a danger, the Justice Department creates a «taint team» of lawyers not involved in the case to review records and decide which ones shouldn't be seen by prosecutors on the case.

Wood has signaled that she's open to using a taint team or appointing a special master, for whom Cohen's attorneys and federal prosecutors have submitted a list of candidates.

It argues that the case does not present special circumstances that differentiate it from others in which protocol is a taint team.

If this sounds like a strange fix, some courts agree, and have expressly disapproved of the government's use of taint teams to review documents, including the federal court in the same district where the search of Cohen's office occurred.

The U.S. attorney's manual proposes a solution to that conundrum: A «taint team.»

Some courts have even held that where the government uses a taint team, the government bears the burden to rebut the presumption that tainted material was improperly provided to the prosecution.

I think a taint team is a viable option,» Wood said.

Until Wood makes a decision on a «taint team,» the U.S. government will have to produce the documents they seized on a rolling basis to opposing counsel, meaning they will have to share with Cohen's team what they found.

She also did not rule out the possibility of using a «privilege team,» also known as a «taint team,» which would review which of the seized materials are considered privileged through attorney - client privilege, and which materials can be turned over to the potential trial prosecutors and federal agents.

«The president objects to the government's proposal to use a «taint team» of prosecutors from the very office that is investigating this matter to conduct the initial privilege review of documents seized from the President's personal attorney, Michael Cohen,» Hendon's letter said.

She added that «the president respectfully requests» that the judge issue an order barring the taint team from conducting an initial review of the seized material and require the government to turn over a copy of that material to Cohen's lawyers.

That procedure involves having a «taint team» of prosecutors outside the investigation review all the material and separate what is covered by the privilege.

But for the privilege to be nullified under the «crime - fraud exception,» Litman said the taint team would have to get the approval of the court before the material could be presented to the prosecution.

In any case, «taint teams» seem to predate the Hillary investigation and the Russian investigation by quite a bit, so Trump's supposed «kernel of truth» that this is somehow a new phenomena is patently false.

Good answer, however, from POV of constitutionalists like Alan Dershovitz, the concept of «taint team» is unconstitutional because they are agents of government and that alone prevents them from even looking at privileged communications, let alone pick what is and what's not relevant.

And if materials are returned to Cohen for being client and attorney privilege, I'm sure it will be done so after the taint team has had time to sift through it (just like it was done for Hillary Clinton's lawyer).

There will also be a «taint team» to examine everything before it is handed over to prosecutors to make sure that those conducting the case never see any material that might be «tainted» by attorney - client privilege.

I am still unsure of where AcePL got the idea that the evidence of a crime was returned to Mills if nobody knew what it was (except for the taint team).

She noted that the prosecution had set up a «taint team» and kept any sensitive documents from those directly prosecuting the case.