Legal Opinion
In Re GRAND JURY SUBPOENA
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 4, 2000No. 00-1622PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal, we are faced with an issue of first impression for this court, whether the target of a grand jury investigation whose attorney has been subpoenaed to give testimony and provide documents to the grand jury that would ordinarily be protected by attorney-client privilege is entitled to review the government’s ex parte affidavit upon which the District Court relied in deciding that the crime-fraud exception was applicable.
In order to preserve the confidentiality of the proceedings, we will refer to the dramatis personae as the client or…
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