Judge rules Cohen can see seized documents before prosecutors
By Katie Bo Williams - 04/16/18 05:44 PM EDT
Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer, won a minor victory in court on Monday following last week's FBI raids on his home and office.
Judge Kimba Wood, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruled that the government must allow Cohen’s legal team to review materials that the FBI seized from his office, home and hotel room last week. Wood ruled that Cohen's legal team will see the materials before the federal prosecutors investigating Cohen are allowed access to them, according to multiple reports.
But she denied an attempt by Cohen and Trump to block prosecutors from reviewing the materials, and she did not make a final decision on whether she will appoint a neutral third party known as a “special master†to sift out privileged materials, as Cohen had sought.
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