case analysis on attorney client privilege and reaction to the Lincoln lawyer

A CASE ANALYSIS ON ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE AND REACTION TO THE LICOLN LAWYER
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Introduction
An Attorney-client privilege is a legal thought that safeguards certain communications flanked by a client who is facing legal actions in court and his attorney. The privilege precludes the attorney from being obliged to attest to the communications made to him by his client in a court of law. It is one of the oldest privileges that are recognized in America for confidential communications. The American Supreme Court argued that by confidentiality assurance, clients are encouraged to make full disclosures to their attorneys hence making them be in a position to give advice and make a provision for effective representation. Therefore, this case analysis shall discuss the importance of the attorney to the defense of the clients and the difference in reporting duties of the attorney. On the same note, the paper shall carry out a comparison and contrast of Mickey Haller ethical responsibility to his client with that of Frank and Francis Belge to Robert, who was their client.
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The attorney is very important to the defense of a client since it protects the confidentiality of the client and acts as protection to the client’s rights. Therefore, this helps to in the encouragement of proper presentation that leads to a full disclosure of all relevant facts from the client. The facts that are disclosed may include those of prior crimes that the client had committed.

There is a big difference in the reporting of duties to the law enforcers. Usually, this happens when there is a court between an attorney learning about a client’s past and learning of the client’s possible future crimes. An attorney is reprimanded for keeping all the information he has got access to about the past of his client regardless of the fact that he no longer represents the client. Therefore, discoursing a client’s past by an attorney is beheld as a breach of his fiduciary responsibilities. On the other hand, an attorney is required by law to disclose to the court his client’s possible future crimes since he is not obligated to protect future crimes. The supreme court of America says that an attorney has to let the truth to be known about his client’s future crimes so as to allow justice to prevail. On the same note, the crime-fraud exclusion necessitates that a crime that is conferred among an attorney and his client ought not to be permitted to take place.
Mickey Haller’s ethical responsibility to his client has got some similarities and differences with the responsibility of Frank Armani and Francis Belge responsibility to their client. The clients in both of the responsibilities revealed to their attorney the crimes that they had done in the past and provided crucial evidence to the same. The attorneys in the two cases never revealed to anyone of the clients crimes and even the location. The difference between the two cases of client privilege contrasted in the maintaining of the information revealed to them by their clients. Frank and Belge made a public acknowledgement that they had been aware of their client’s past crimes and the locations at their client had committed the crime. Mickey Haller maintained the client responsibility, and he never revealed it anyone hence maintaining the attorney of his client.
I agree with the idea of client privilege in its application to criminal defendants. The reason for my support is because it acts as protection to the client’s rights that are not supposed to be infringed. On the same note, it keeps the confidentiality of the clients to the general public.
Conclusion
Justice should not be all about the revelation of the truth, but it should include crucial evidence that should support the truth. Therefore, criminals should be protected until the time they are proved to be guilty by a court of law. Protection of criminals enables the clients of attorneys not to be subjected to punishments that may go against their rights. The concept of attorney is very crucial to the protection of clients.