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The issue is privileged communication such as attorney client communications and clergy believer confessional. Currently that is protected under law. Outside o
by rawgabbit 1y ago
The issue is privileged communication such as attorney client communications and clergy believer confessional. Currently that is protected under law.
Outside of the confessional, church officials acting as teachers, counselors, administrators, care givers are already obliged to report potential abuse.
- Tadpole9181 1y agoIf a lawyer knows about ongoing or future crimes, they are not shielded and that information loses privilege. They only get privilege for past crimes. They have an obligation to report it or be an accessory.
- rawgabbit 1y agoAnd your point is? Furthermore, this article from Georgetown defines this exception to the attorney client privilege more narrowly. https://www.law.georgetown.edu/american-criminal-law-review/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2023/04/60-2_Parisi_Shedding-Light.pdf https://www.law.georgetown.edu/american-criminal-law-review/... To invoke the crime-fraud exception, the party seeking disclosure of an adver- sary’s attorney-client communications “must make a prima facie showing (1) the client was committing or intending to commit a fraud or crime, and (2) the attor- ney-client communications were in furtherance of that alleged crime or fraud.”