Attorney client privlege

[Qacer]

I just saw this video on CNN: video link

The story is about two attorneys holding a secret for 26 years that could have kept an innocent man out of jail. Basically, the attorneys client confessed to a murder that sent another man to jail. However, due to attorney-client privilege the attorneys could not share this secret with anyone else.

 

[TallBill]

Yikes, he's been in jail since I was born. Shitty

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: Qacer
I just saw this video on CNN: video link

The story is about two attorneys holding a secret for 26 years that could have kept an innocent man out of jail. Basically, the attorneys client confessed to a murder that sent another man to jail. However, due to attorney-client privilege the attorneys could not share this secret with anyone else.

I'm not sure how they could have saved the innocent man w/o implicating the guilty.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: altonb1

Originally posted by: Qacer
I just saw this video on CNN: video link

The story is about two attorneys holding a secret for 26 years that could have kept an innocent man out of jail. Basically, the attorneys client confessed to a murder that sent another man to jail. However, due to attorney-client privilege the attorneys could not share this secret with anyone else.

I'm not sure how they could have saved the innocent man w/o implicating the guilty.

True but I don't think any judge would allow the information to be used to implicate the guilty. But at least that info would have freed an innocent man.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

True but I don't think any judge would allow the information to be used to implicate the guilty. But at least that info would have freed an innocent man.

And then they would be sued and be out of a job. It's built in as part of the legal system, like it or not.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: altonb1

Originally posted by: Qacer
I just saw this video on CNN: video link

The story is about two attorneys holding a secret for 26 years that could have kept an innocent man out of jail. Basically, the attorneys client confessed to a murder that sent another man to jail. However, due to attorney-client privilege the attorneys could not share this secret with anyone else.

I'm not sure how they could have saved the innocent man w/o implicating the guilty.

One of them would have had to make the choice to deep six his law career by breaking the attorney-client privilege.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: altonb1

Originally posted by: Qacer
I just saw this video on CNN: video link

The story is about two attorneys holding a secret for 26 years that could have kept an innocent man out of jail. Basically, the attorneys client confessed to a murder that sent another man to jail. However, due to attorney-client privilege the attorneys could not share this secret with anyone else.

I'm not sure how they could have saved the innocent man w/o implicating the guilty.

True but I don't think any judge would allow the information to be used to implicate the guilty. But at least that info would have freed an innocent man.

It would be the county prosecutors that would determine whether or not implicate the guilty.

 

[Legendary]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: altonb1

Originally posted by: Qacer
I just saw this video on CNN: video link

The story is about two attorneys holding a secret for 26 years that could have kept an innocent man out of jail. Basically, the attorneys client confessed to a murder that sent another man to jail. However, due to attorney-client privilege the attorneys could not share this secret with anyone else.

I'm not sure how they could have saved the innocent man w/o implicating the guilty.

True but I don't think any judge would allow the information to be used to implicate the guilty. But at least that info would have freed an innocent man.

No man would be released from a murder without some sort of evidence being presented. If the evidence were presented, those lawyers would have been disbarred. Attorney-client privilege is not something you fuck around with.
/IANAL

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: altonb1

Originally posted by: Qacer
I just saw this video on CNN: video link

The story is about two attorneys holding a secret for 26 years that could have kept an innocent man out of jail. Basically, the attorneys client confessed to a murder that sent another man to jail. However, due to attorney-client privilege the attorneys could not share this secret with anyone else.

I'm not sure how they could have saved the innocent man w/o implicating the guilty.

True but I don't think any judge would allow the information to be used to implicate the guilty. But at least that info would have freed an innocent man.

It would not have freed him. They come forward the judge says what proof you have. He said so. Not good enough.

If all it took was 1 person to say it was someone else, i swear. Then nobody be in jail.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: altonb1

Originally posted by: Qacer
I just saw this video on CNN: video link

The story is about two attorneys holding a secret for 26 years that could have kept an innocent man out of jail. Basically, the attorneys client confessed to a murder that sent another man to jail. However, due to attorney-client privilege the attorneys could not share this secret with anyone else.

I'm not sure how they could have saved the innocent man w/o implicating the guilty.

True but I don't think any judge would allow the information to be used to implicate the guilty. But at least that info would have freed an innocent man.

It would be the county prosecutors that would determine whether or not implicate the guilty.

They could try, but no judge would allow it to be used as evidence in a trial.