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Judge to Continue Hearing on Motion to Suppress Attorney-Client Recording After Alleged Threats in San Antonio Custody Case
Summary
A judge in Bexar County on July 28 continued arguments on a defense motion to suppress a recorded conversation between defendant Ronald Lamar Allen and his former civil attorney, Charles Michael Ireland Jr., after testimony from the former attorney and a law-enforcement investigator.
A judge in Bexar County on July 28 continued arguments on a defense motion to suppress a recorded conversation between defendant Ronald Lamar Allen and his former civil attorney, Charles Michael Ireland Jr., after testimony from the former attorney and a law-enforcement investigator.
The issue before the court was whether portions of the recording were protected by attorney-client privilege or fell under an exception because, prosecutors say, Allen threatened violence in connection with an upcoming custody hearing. Prosecutors and defense counsel agreed the recording exists and the court admitted it as State's Exhibit 1 for the hearing.
The recording contains a statement that prosecutors and the attorney who recorded the meeting described in the hearing as a threat. In the recording, Allen says, "you bust these guys or there's dead bodies everywhere, bro." Charles Michael Ireland Jr.,…
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