"If you're committing an ongoing crime and you involve your lawyer in it, there's no privilege involved. That's not an attorney. It's an accomplice." http://do

"If you're committing an ongoing crime and you involve your lawyer in it, there's no privilege involved. That's not an attorney. It's an accomplice." http://doctorcleveland.blogspot.com/2018/04/don-corleones-guide-to-attorney-client.html http://doctorcleveland.blogspot.com/2018/04/don-corleones-gu... > Later on, when Don Corleone is incapacitated, [the lawyer] Hagen sits in on a five-person strategy meeting where at least three murders are ordered. Hagen can't claim attorney-client privilege for any of that. Passing the bar is not a license to kill. Hagen is sitting there when his foster-brother Sonny orders a disloyal subordinate named Paulie Gatto killed. If the Gatto murder ever went to trial, Hagen would not be a lawyer but a defendant.