United States Ninth Circuit

No Sixth Amendment or attorney-client privilege violation resulted from district court's order compelling appellant's former counsel to testify and produce files regarding threats of bodily harm made by appellant (himself a former attorney) during attorney-client communications regarding a pending criminal proceeding; appellant's counsel was a percipient witness and all references to unrelated privileged issues were sufficiently withheld.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/07/2002
• Decided 04/19/2002
• Published 04/19/2002

Judges

• ALARCON, Circuit Judge., Before: ALARCON, and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges, and TEILBORG, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Robert L. Stephens, Jr.,Southside Law Center, Billings, MT, for the defendant-appellant., Carl E. Rostad, Assistant United States Attorney, Great Falls, MT, for the plaintiff-appellee.