United States v. Robert Lee Griffin

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the federal common law marital communications privilege “protects from disclosure private communications between spouses” and “covers . . . only those communi- cations made during a valid marriage”
• applying the Perlman doctrine where seized documents were in the temporary possession of a special master
• allowing an interlocutory appeal of a protective order that required the disclosure of what the defendant asserted were privileged letters
• finding irreparable harm where the protective order would have required the disclosure of numerous letters the defendant wrote to his attorney, who was also his wife, from prison
• “[T]he district court’s order ‘conclusively determine[s] the disputed question’ whether the government is entitled to read the communications between Griffin and his wife for which the [marital communications] privilege had been claimed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).