Word: client
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...charge against the U.S. attorney's office was made by Dershowitz during a hearing aimed at winning a new trial for his client, Edmund A. Rosner. Rosner was convicted in 1972 on charges of bribing a police officer in order to obtain secret grand jury materials...
...lawyer who learns that his client has committed a crime for which he has not been charged keep that knowledge to himself? The question has come up frequently during the past year in connection with the Watergate investigations now unfolding in Washington...
Last week the issue was raised starkly in a murder trial in rural Lake Pleasant, N.Y. Two attorneys for a man accused of one killing revealed that they had known for six months of two other murders committed by their client. They had kept silent because they felt bound by the confidentiality of the lawyer-client relationship...
However shocking the two lawyers' silence may have been, it appears to be legally sound. The American Bar Association's Code of Professional Responsibility upholds the confidentiality of the lawyer-client relationship. Almost unanimously, A.B.A. members agree that this "sacred trust" is essential if the attorney is to represent his client properly. "The conduct of the lawyers is absolutely correct," says Hofstra University Law Dean Monroe Freedman. "If they had acted otherwise, it would be a serious violation of their professional responsibility...
...individuals, not even lawyers, are generally required to report crimes that have been committed (as opposed to crimes in preparation); only if they actually tamper with evidence are they vulnerable to charges of obstruction of justice. Under U.S. law, an attorney's sacred trust belongs to his client, not to the court...