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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 6/30/1986

Commonwealth v. Maguigan

Citations

  • 511 A.2d 1327
  • 511 Pa. 112
  • 1986 Pa. LEXIS 818

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining that a criminal court’s personal jurisdiction over an absent defendant includes the authority to compel the defendant to return for trial
  • recognizing in dicta the potential application of the attorney-client privilege to a client’s location, which is not generally privileged, if “the information sought went to the heart of the legal advice sought by the client.”
  • describing the attorney-client privilege in the context of the criminal law, see 42 Pa.C.S. § 5916, as \limited to confidential communications and disclosures made by the client to his legal advisor\
  • describing the attorney-client privilege in the context of the criminal law, see 42 Pa.C.S. § 5916, as “limited to confidential communications and disclosures made by the client to his legal advisor”
  • “The attorney-client privilege is deeply rooted in our common law and can be traced to the reign of Elizabeth I, where it was already unquestioned.”
  • an attorney was compelled to disclose a client’s whereabouts who violated bail on charges of rape, statutory rape, corrupting the morals of a minor, indecent assault, and indecent exposure

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Judges: Nix, Larsen, Flaherty, McDermott, Papadakos, Zappala

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