United States Fifth Circuit

Defendant's motion to quash a grand jury subpoena, seeking testimony from his former counsel, is granted where the government did not make the prima facie showing necessary to establish the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client and work product privileges.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/26/2005
• Published 07/27/2005

Judges

• DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:, Before JOLLY, SMITH and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rebecca L. Hudsmith, Fed. Pub. Def. (argued), Lafayette, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James Stanley Lemelle, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Richard Lewis Bourgeois, Jr., Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.