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Liptak on Attorney-Client Privilege

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In today's New York Times, Adam Liptak writes, "When Law Prevents Righting a Wrong."  The attorney-client privilege has been involved in two recent high visibility cases.STAPLES HUGHES, a North Carolina lawyer, was on the witness stand and about to disclose a secret he believed would free an innocent man from prison. But the judge told Mr. Hughes to stop. ?If you testify,? Judge Jack A. Thompson said at a hearing last year on the prisoner?s request for a new trial, ?I will be compelled to report you to the state bar. Do you understand that?? But Mr. Hughes continued. Twenty-two years before, he said, a client, now dead, confessed that he had acted alone in committing a double murder for which another man was also serving life...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 04, 2008 (boomark / email).