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Reading on Fox News about the raid on Trump's lawyers office and the formation of firewall and taint teams. What is a taint team?
 
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A “taint team” is a group of government attorneys who are not involved in the investigation of the underlying matter and are assigned only to review seized documents for privilege. The taint team will review the documents and then provide non-privileged documents to the trial team and return privileged documents to the party from whom they were seized. The prosecutors who are working on the underlying investigation and prosecution are usually referred to as the “trial team.”

In most cases, the defendant opposes the use of a taint team, because allowing the government to review any privileged documents undermines the privilege and runs the risk that documents will inadvertently, or deliberately, be shared between the taint team and the trial team.

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it taint what you're thinking it is.




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Only the government would have an occupation known as a taint team.
 
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Its a team of government attorneys that occupies the space between genitals and assholes.





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It refers to a different definition of taint.

In this case, they are trying to avoid a tainted case. The use of people not on the prosecution team to evaluate and separate information is similar to computer companies employing staff to reverse-engineer code or devices and then provide only the general specifics to the team that will produce the new code or device.
 
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So, after they imprint their stamp of approval on the documents, is that called a "Taint Punch"?
 
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I’m the taint system is as robust as the system where people aren’t supposed to do insider trading. </sarcasm>



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Taint nothing to see here, move on.


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I saw "What is a 'taint seam'?".
I came in for a good laugh only to find a question about lawyers....oh, wait.
 
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I saw "What is a 'taint seam'?".
I came in for a good laugh only to find a question about lawyers....oh, wait.


They are government lawyers, hence the 'taint' reference...



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