United States Ninth Circuit

An order requiring delivery to the government of redacted letters written by defendant to his wife, who was also his attorney, while defendant was incarcerated is affirmed where: 1) the order was immediately appealable under either the collateral order doctrine or the Perlman rule; and 2) under the circumstances, defendant could not claim the marital communications privilege as to certain letters.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/16/2006
• Published 03/16/2006

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge., Before SUSAN P. GRABER, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joseph F. Walsh, Los Angeles, CA, Michael M. Crain, Santa Monica, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen G. Wolfe, Gregory W. Jessner, and Joey Blanche, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Los Angeles, CA, for the appellee.