Special counsel seeks testimony from Trump lawyer as prosecutors allege evidence of crime

CALL: You’ll find out soon.
RESPONSE: What does that mean?
Would you articulate for the forum just exactly what you are suggesting with that allegation?
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Poster Patriot, channeling a 14yr-old's girlish coyness ain't adding gravitas to your poor avatar. If you have something to say here....well, mon ami, say it.

It is, after all, Adult Swim.
Don't be scared of the deeper water.
Put your big-boy whitey-tighties on and be manly.
Be a responsible contributor to this forum for adults.

Good luck.
 
Legal minutia becomes important to the left when Trump's name is mentioned. Meanwhile people are dying in Ohio from Phosgene gas, illegals are massing at the borders, China is invading our air space and the president is mired in half a dozen scandals.
 
Can you imagine if the Republicans ever separated Hillary or the Biden Crime Families from their attorneys?
If a client uses his lawyers to commit crimes for them, then the lawyers can be forced to testify.

Attorney client privilege has limits. It cannot be used as a shield to conceal crimes.
 
In other words they have nothing, so they are trying to force the lawyer to testify against his own client, which is illegal in this country.
Derp points for not reading the OP...

"For those unfamiliar with the term "crime fraud exception" it's exactly what the name implies. Attorney client privilege is waved if the advice the client is getting is in service of a crime."
 
1. Trump had the authority to declassify the documents he took. So Trump may not have taken classified documents.

2. Biden had NO such authority. He clearly stole classified documents. Did he sell them for profit?
How do you know the president didn't declassify the ones you can't prove were stolen by Biden?
 
The special counsel investigating Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents is seeking to compel a lawyer for the former president to testify before a grand jury, a source familiar with the matter said. Prosecutors allege in a sealed filing that they have evidence that some of Trump’s conversations with the attorney were in furtherance of a crime, the source said.


In a sign of an aggressive new legal strategy, first reported by The New York Times, the source said special counsel Jack Smith has asked a judge to allow prosecutors to invoke what’s known as the crime-fraud exception, which would let them sidestep protections afforded to Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran through attorney-client privilege. The source did not say what questions the government is trying to force Corcoran to answer.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ju...mp-lawyer-prosecutors-allege-eviden-rcna70711

For those unfamiliar with the term "crime fraud exception" it's exactly what the name implies. Attorney client privilege is waved if the advice the client is getting is in service of a crime. It doesn't take much to connect the dots here. Corcoran is the lawyer who wrote the letter claiming there were no more classified docs in Trump's possession. Ooops.

If Corcoran wrote the letter at Don's direction or with his knowledge that is obstruction of justice. Something Don is well practiced at according to Mueller's report.

The special counsel apparently seeks to invade the attorney client privilege by claiming that the (otherwise) privileged communication falls outside of the attorney client privilege since it involves criminality in and of itself.

It is true that an attorney is not permitted a client on how to commit a crime. And it is further true that such a communication would therefore not be legally recognizable as being “privileged.”

But it takes a great deal more than just making that claim to override attorney client privilege. This particular prosecutorial strategy is consistent with the overarching problem with the entire “case.” Trampling upon crucial legal principles to achieve the partisan political end, here, is outrageous. It not only serves to potentially violate attorney/client privilege as it pertains to President Trump, but it serves to dilute attorney/client privilege for everyone.

The court should be extremely skeptical of this maneuver.
 
Noper. I don't.

Don't be girlishly coy.
Spit it out if you actually know what you, yourself, means.
This is Adult Swim, poster Patriot.
Remove your water-wings and jump into the deep end.
The water is fine.

He won't articulate what he actually means. He has been in trouble before for threats.
 
If a client uses his lawyers to commit crimes for them, then the lawyers can be forced to testify.

Attorney client privilege has limits. It cannot be used as a shield to conceal crimes.

So anyone working for the Biden Crime Family is de facto committing a crime
 
The special counsel investigating Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents is seeking to compel a lawyer for the former president to testify before a grand jury, a source familiar with the matter said. Prosecutors allege in a sealed filing that they have evidence that some of Trump’s conversations with the attorney were in furtherance of a crime, the source said.


In a sign of an aggressive new legal strategy, first reported by The New York Times, the source said special counsel Jack Smith has asked a judge to allow prosecutors to invoke what’s known as the crime-fraud exception, which would let them sidestep protections afforded to Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran through attorney-client privilege. The source did not say what questions the government is trying to force Corcoran to answer.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ju...mp-lawyer-prosecutors-allege-eviden-rcna70711

For those unfamiliar with the term "crime fraud exception" it's exactly what the name implies. Attorney client privilege is waved if the advice the client is getting is in service of a crime. It doesn't take much to connect the dots here. Corcoran is the lawyer who wrote the letter claiming there were no more classified docs in Trump's possession. Ooops.

If Corcoran wrote the letter at Don's direction or with his knowledge that is obstruction of justice. Something Don is well practiced at according to Mueller's report.

This belongs in Conspiracy theories.
 
Prosecutors allege evidence of a crime there is some breaking news not like one has never done this before. I have seen these movies before and generally they all end the same way nothing going nowhere.
 
The special counsel apparently seeks to invade the attorney client privilege by claiming that the (otherwise) privileged communication falls outside of the attorney client privilege since it involves criminality in and of itself.

It is true that an attorney is not permitted a client on how to commit a crime. And it is further true that such a communication would therefore not be legally recognizable as being “privileged.”

But it takes a great deal more than just making that claim to override attorney client privilege. This particular prosecutorial strategy is consistent with the overarching problem with the entire “case.” Trampling upon crucial legal principles to achieve the partisan political end, here, is outrageous. It not only serves to potentially violate attorney/client privilege as it pertains to President Trump, but it serves to dilute attorney/client privilege for everyone.

The court should be extremely skeptical of this maneuver.
The court will be very cautious, I agree.

But if the court approves it, unlikely, but as said, if they do, then rest assured, Jack Smith had some real solid evidence!!!
 
There is no evidence I'm aware of that Joe knew the docs were there. That is not the case with Trump, who directed that the docs be taken from the WH to MAL.
So now ignorance is an acceptable form of defense? I don't excuse Trump or Biden.
 

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