Lawyer Wired, Convict Appeals

A BBC production crew spent a year in Suffolk County Courthouse, filming a Frontline documentary about the US justice system called ”Real Justice”. One of the featured trials invovled Daniel Downey, charged with murdering a man in a South Boston bar. Attorneys on both sides had agreed to wear wires. Problem was, nobody told Downey, who is arguing on appeal that the wire violated his right to private consultation with his lawyer….

from the Boston Globe