The editor-in-chief at a well-known legal news website argued in an opinion piece on Tuesday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team might have violated former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s Fourth Amendment rights, which could lead to major problems for the special counsel.
Mueller’s team raided Manafort’s multimillion-dollar home in Alexandria, Virginia on July 26, 2017, and in the process of executing a search warrant, they might have violated the law with some of the material they recovered, Rachel Stockman wrote at Law Newz.
According to CNN, Mueller’s team took documents during the raid that they were not allowed take:
During that raid, Mueller’s investigators took documents considered to be covered by attorney-client privilege, sources told CNN. Lawyers from the WilmerHale law firm, representing Manafort at the time, warned Mueller’s office that their search warrant didn’t allow access to attorney materials. The documents in question have now been returned, the sources say.
Stockman wrote that Manafort’s attorneys will seize upon this misstep by Mueller’s team and that the situation raises serious issues surrounding Manafort’s constitutional rights, which could throw the investigation off balance as investigators cannot “unsee” evidence once they have seen it.
Report: Mueller's Team Might Have Violated Manafort's Constitutional Rights
"The Fourth Amendment is violated whenever law enforcement officials have reason to believe that a search or seizure is likely to expose them to privileged attorney-client communications and fail to take reasonable steps to minimize their exposure."
I hope this is true ..... and Manafort walks because the FBI got overzealous