re: #156 darthstar

This confused me, then I realized attorney client privilege doesn’t apply to criminal behavior…

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Being in a position in which you become a witness in your client’s trial is an attorney’s worst nightmare.

However, I’m personally aware of a federal criminal trial in which a defense attorney voluntarily called his firm’s partner to testify as to the actions of their firm’s in house investigator. This was done in an agreement with the AUSA, to forestall the AUSA from issuing a grand jury summons to the investigator