People v. Paasche

How courts have described this case

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• stating that to establish the crime-fraud exception it must be shown that the communication was in furtherance of a criminal or fraudulent enterprise
• stating that to establish the crime-fraud exception it must be shown that the communication was in furtherance of a criminal or fraudulent enterprise
• noting that the purpose behind the Michigan statute recognizing the accountant-client privilege “is to protect from disclosure the substance of the information conveyed by the client to the accountant”
• for crime-fraud exception to apply proponent of exception must show that there is “reasonable basis to (1) suspect the perpetration or attempted peipetration of a crime or fraud and (2) that the communications were in furtherance thereof’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).