Admissibility of Exculpatory Attorney-Client Communications in Criminal Cases
Arizona State Law Journal, Vol. 22, p. 895, 1990
22 Pages Posted: 25 Jun 2009
Date Written: 1990
Abstract
The attorney-client privilege is designed to protect the confidentiality of communications that clients make to their attorneys for the purpose of facilitating the rendition of professional legal services. In the litigation context, parties almost always assert the attorney-client privilege defensively to prevent an adversary from using against a client what the client has said in confidence to his or her lawyer. This article, however, will examine what might be viewed as an affirmative use of the privilege: the introduction into evidence by a defendant in a criminal case of exculpatory statements he has made in confidence to his attorney. (from introduction)
Keywords: evidence, attorney-client privilege, criminal procedure
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