ST. LOUIS • A former Missouri Supreme Court chief justice will review claims by Reginald Clemons that the Missouri attorney general’s office improperly gleaned defense strategy by obtaining jailhouse visitor logs and telephone recordings.

Mike Wolff, who also served as dean of St. Louis University’s law school, has been appointed special master in the death penalty retrial of Clemons that is set for January.

Clemons, 44, and three others were accused of raping and murdering sisters Julie Kerry, 20, and Robin Kerry, 19, by forcing them off the closed Chain of Rocks Bridge in April 1991. The Kerry sisters’ cousin, Thomas Cummins, survived his fall from the bridge.

St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison ordered Wolff to determine if the state violated attorney-client privilege or learned identities of defense expert witnesses when it subpoenaed jail visitor logs and recordings of hundreds of Clemons’ phone calls at the jail since last year.

Wolff declined to comment Tuesday.