PA253 Legal Ethics Unit 4 Assignment.docx ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE PA-253 Legal Ethics

PA253 Legal Ethics Unit 4 Assignment.docx  ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE  PA-253  Legal Ethics                        PA253   Attorney-Client Privilege  Abstract  While Attorney-client privilege is not without exceptions, under this rule, lawyers may not disclose the communications of their clients, nor may others force them to do so.  Erosion of this principle compromises confidentiality and turns the lawyer into an agent of the prosecution. But, what of attorney disclosures offered after the death of their client?  Does privilege extend in perpetuity, or is there an exception that would allow post modem disclosures for the exoneration of the wrongly convicted?   Our subject, North Carolina Attorney, Staples Hughes breached attorney-client privilege after his client ™s death, asserting an ethical obligation to disclose.  Prior to the death of his client, Jerry Cashwell, attorney Staples Hughes acted in accordance with Rule 1.6 of th