Jones v. St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railway Co.

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• finding attorney-client privilege could be overcome if defendant meets burden of showing need
• suggesting, at least in the context of a criminal trial where constitutional issues of confrontation are presented, that a defendant may, upon an adeguate showing of need, pierce the attorney-client privilege and review otherwise privileged materials in the possession of a witness
• when police destroyed what they thought was an animal carcass, they did not know victim had been murdered, much less that the defendant murdered him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).