United States Ninth Circuit

Where defendant's corporate counsel tipped the prosecution to defendant's criminal activity, the attorney-client privilege did not bar the inclusion of the evidence obtained as a result of the tip, because the subject of the disclosure was subject to the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/05/2001
• Decided 01/29/2002
• Published 01/29/2002

Judges

• GRABER, Circuit Judge., Before: CANBY, GRABER, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce Locke,Moss & Locke, Sacramento, California, for defendant-appellant-cross-appellee., R. Steven Lapham, Assistant United States Attorney, for plaintiff-appellee-cross-appellant.