Commonwealth v. Stenhach

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[t]he right not to be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself would be empty if defense counsel, repeating information provided by a client, acted as a witness against him”
• denying attorney’s contention that duty to deliver evidence to prosecution does not arise until court orders attorneys to do so
• denying attorney's contention that duty to deliver evidence to prosecution does not arise until court orders attorneys to do so
• stating where physical evidence, obtained by the defense from a privileged communication from the defendant, is turned over to the State by the defense, the State cannot disclose to the finder of fact the source of the evidence
• discusses defense counsel’s duty to disclose incriminating physical evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).