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To: Alberta's Child

Discussions of previous acts are generally subject to the attorney-client privilege. If, for example, if a client tells his lawyer that he robbed a bank or lied about assets during a divorce, the lawyer probably can’t disclose the information.

From this link:

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/attorney-client-privilege.html


107 posted on 10/25/2019 1:15:05 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

The difference here is that the lawyer was a co-conspirator, and the conspiracy to commit the crime(s) was the subject of the conversations.


118 posted on 10/25/2019 1:28:04 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

on the other hand discussions of future or pending crimes MAY be subject to the criminal-fraud exception to attorney client privilege

http://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1850&context=umlr


120 posted on 10/25/2019 1:29:41 PM PDT by rolling_stone (no justice no peace and leakers)
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