United States v. Robert Johnston

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• finding that, in order to be protected by the attorney client privilege, a communication between a lawyer and client must relate to legal advice or strategy
• noting lack of “credible evidence” that demonstrated communication related to provision of legal advice or strategy
• “The defendant’s participation in or connection to the conspiracy need only be slight, so long as sufficient evidence exists to establish the defendant’s participation beyond a reasonable doubt.”
• \The defendant’s ability to pursue a motion to suppress under section 2518 is not impeded by his lack of standing to directly assert the attorney-client privilege.\
• no fatal variance when evidence at trial did not prove defendant conspired with all named codefendants in indictment so long as it proved he conspired “with others”
• a defendant “participating in a drug conspiracy is accountable for that drug quantity which was within the scope of the agreement and reasonably foreseeable to [him]” (internal quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).