A Rhode Island attorney's BlackBerry has been seized by a court as part of an investigation. A spokesperson for the Attorney General, Peter Kilmartin, said prosecutors had a court-authorized warrant to seize the attorney's BlackBerry. The spokesperson declined to reveal the nature of the investigation.

The attorney, Donna Uhlmann, told The Providence Journal that she believes prosecutors seized her BB because "they want one of her clients to testify at a probation-revocation hearing for another person." Uhlmann asserts through her attorney "there's nothing of a criminal nature on the BlackBerry and that it contains information protected by attorney-client privilege."

What if her BlackBerry does have attorney-client privileged data on it? How can the government get away with that?