United States v. David O'Malley

How courts have described this case

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• upholding the disqualification of criminal defendant’s counsel who had previously represented a key government witness
• hearing on attorney disqualification not constitutionally necessary, but may be advisable
• a client does not waive the attorney-client privilege merely by disclosing a subject which he had discussed with his attorney, but rather, in order to waive the privilege the client must disclose the communication with the attorney itself
• refusing to apply holdings from civil cases in criminal case
• “[A] client does not waive his attorney-client privilege ‘merely by disclosing a subject which he had discussed with his attorney’. In order to waive the privilege, the client must disclose the communication with the attorney itself.”
• “[A] client does not waive his attorney-client privilege ‘merely by disclosing a subject which he had discussed with his attorney.’ In order to waive the privilege, the client must disclose the communication with the attorney itself.” (internal citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).