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Federal Prosecutors Agree to Changes After Disclosure of Leavenworth Recordings

By Kansas News Service
Published May 17, 2018 at 2:44 PM CDT
Federal prosecutors have agreed to address issues arising from their use of covert recordings of phone conversations between defense attorneys and their clients at a prison in Leavenworth. (Photo Credit: KCUR Radio)
Federal prosecutors have agreed to address issues arising from their use of covert recordings of phone conversations between defense attorneys and their clients at a prison in Leavenworth. (Photo Credit: KCUR Radio)

Disclosures that federal prosecutors at a Leavenworth detention facility used recordings of attorney-client phone calls sparked outrage among Kansas defense attorneys. Nearly two years later prosecutors have now agreed to make changes. Dan Margolies of the Kansas News Service reports.

        

 
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