Indicted attorney Lynne Stewart and her co-defendants get no assurances that conversations with their lawyers, or any other communications, are free of monitoring by the federal government, a Southern District of New York judge ruled Thursday.
Judge John G. Koeltl rejected an argument made by Stewart that even the possibility of monitoring implicates her Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel.
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