Brookings v. State

How courts have described this case

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• \mere fact that a witness-client testifies to facts which were the subject of consultation with counsel is no waiver of the privilege.\
• trial court did not abuse discretion by prohibiting questioning of state witness about a false statement arrest which occurred three years prior to trial and of which no record of conviction was presented
• defendant's allegations of certain inconsistencies in various statements of state witnesses were insufficient to require disclosure of witnesses' grand jury testimony; defense counsel through cross-examination able to bring out purported inconsistencies
• “It is the communication with counsel which is privileged, not the facts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).