State v. Walen

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a client implicitly waives the attorney-client privilege when the client “alleges a breach of duty to him by the attorney” (quotation omitted)
• holding that a defendant who asserts an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim waives the attorney- client privilege on all relevant communications
• recognizing that the “appropriate test” for admissibility of a visual aid is “relevance, in other words, whether the . . . visual aids are helpful to the jury”
• holding “that a defendant who claims ineffective assistance of counsel necessarily waives the attorney-client privilege as to all communications relevant to that issue”
• finding no abuse of discretion where visual aid was used to help “clarify” witness’s testimony
• waiver reaches only communi cations relevant to the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).