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Bronx lawyers sick of having to listen to ‘sex tapes’

Usually, defense attorneys are happy when their clients get off.

That’s not the case in The Bronx, though, where the lawyers for a group of accused drug-running gangbangers are complaining about having to sift through hundreds of hours of recorded jail conversations in which their clients brag about their sex lives.

One defense attorney was so sick of the blue banter that he actually asked out of the case, saying he planned to retire soon and could not get through all the material. A judge rejected the request.

“It’s not practical to have us sit and listen to 5,575 phone calls that are not relevant and sometimes include pornographic conversations,” said the lawyer, Bill Flack, as he pleaded with the judge during a pretrial hearing last week.

“I’ve listened to about 150 hours of it, and I’d say 130 was sex talk and family fights,” another one of the lawyers, who asked not to be named, told The Post. “Some of the guys are really explicit about who’s screwing who and what they’re doing with each other. It gets to the point where you don’t want to hear it. It’s not the way I would be talking.”

The attorneys were obliged to listen to the tapes to see if there was anything relevant to their clients’ defense after prosecutors handed them over. The tapes were made at Rikers Island.