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Client secrets & keeping your mouth shut

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Last week I posted on Monroe H. Freedman?s Getting Honest About Client Perjury. The title of Freedman’s article, however, is more than a little misleading. The article is better described as a primer on the criminal defense lawyer’s duty to her clients. Freedman’s article is a great reminder on the scope of the privilege, the constitutional underpinnings of the duty of confidentiality, and a strong argument that many of the devices for dealing with client perjury & the like that have been taught in law school (at least when I went in the early-mid nineties) are inappropriate. This is a quick & good read that is written in such a manner as to make it readily accessible. I wasn’t planning, however, on blogging on why I think this is must reading for criminal trial attorneys...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 22, 2008 (boomark / email).