Authorities accused a South Florida defense attorney of smuggling in documents saturated in cocaine that he disguised as legal documents when he visited his client in the Palm Beach County jail.

H. Scott Fingerhut, a legal ethics professor at Florida International University College of Law, said criminal defense attorneys should expect the rules to change governing their visitation of incarcerated clients due to the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office arrest of David Casals.

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