DOJ To Supreme Court: Monitoring Of Inmate’s Privileged Call Was Harmless

( September 9, 2025, 1:22 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Any violation of the attorney-client privilege that purportedly occurred as a result of a prosecutor listening to an indictee’s phone call with his counsel was harmless and does not merit automatic reversal of his conviction without a showing of prejudice, the U.S. Department of Justice asserts on behalf of the U.S. government in its opposition to the man’s petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court....