United States v. Deborah Ahmad Bey

HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.

Deborah Ahmad Bey appeals her 2010 conviction for failing to surrender to prison authorities. She contends her conviction was based on evidence of a privileged and inadmissible attorney-client communication telling her when she had been ordered to report for prison. We have not addressed this issue in a precedential opinion before. We follow our colleagues in other circuits and hold that the lawyer’s communication of the’s surrender date was not a privileged communication. See, e.g., United States v. Gray, 876 F.2d 1411, 1415 (9th Cir.1989); United States v. Innella,…