FARMER, J.
The trial judge at one time assigned to this criminal case was required by our mandate to hold an adversarial hearing on whether to apply the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege to certain communications. Instead of holding an ordinary adversarial hearing with all parties involved, however, the judge engaged in extensive ex parte hearings only with the prosecutors and their investigators, after which he overruled the claim of
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