United States v. James Douglas Alexander

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• defendant’s statements threatening violence “were clearly not communications in order to obtain legal advice” and were thus not privileged
• “[T]he privilege is limited to only those disclosures . . . necessary to obtain informed legal advice.”
• “Alexander’s threats to commit violent acts against [his counsel] and others were clearly not communications in order to obtain legal advice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).