Arthur C. Laughner v. United States

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• concluding that an appellant waived attorney-client privilege by contending that his defense attorney failed to adequately represent him during his criminal proceeding
• refusing to allow petitioner, who requested a section 2255 evidentiary hearing, to invoke attorney-client privilege to “eliminate the one source of evidence likely to contradict his allegations”
• “[W]here, as here, the client alleges a breach of duty to him by the attorney, we have not the slightest scruple about deciding that he thereby waives the privilege as to all communications relevant to that issue.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).