LEO: Confidentiality - Fruits and  LE Op. 709

 

Confidentiality - Fruits and Instrumentalities of a Crime.

 

July 11, 1985

 

An attorney who received documents from a client who is the husband of a

criminal suspect must deliver those documents to the appropriate

authorities if they are the fruits or instrumentalities of a crime. The

attorney should first inform his client of this duty. [ LE Op. 551]

 

Committee Opinion July 11, 1985

 

CROSS REFERENCES

 

See also LE Op. 953.