People v. Compeau

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a defendant’s conversation with his attorney that was held in a manner that could be overheard was not confidential and, therefore, not privileged
• explaining that attorney-client privilege does not apply unless there is an “element of confidentiality”
• attorney-client privilege does not apply when the party seeking to assert the privilege does not take reasonable precautions to preserve the confidentiality of the communications
• attorney-client privilege did not attach because the defendant failed to take reasonable precautions to keep his communication confidential, even though he undoubtedly did not intend for his statements to be overheard
• referring to evidence of flight to show consciousness of guilt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).