Court Opinion

ID: 9459010
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:07:57.097107+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:58.885112
License: Public Domain

KNOCH, Senior Circuit Judge
(concurring in part and dissenting in part).
I am in complete accord with Judge Kiley’s well reasoned views concerning the interception of Minnie Kahn’s telephone conversations with others than Irving Kahn, but I must respectfully dissent from his conclusion that the marital privilege does not apply to their conversations with each other. As counsel for the Kahns argued persuasively before this Court, an attorney-client relationship may be effectively destroyed once the two become fellow criminals, but husband and wife remain husband and wife even though they embark on a joint criminal venture. I would affirm the decision of the District Judge.