The Justice Department has again turned to a seldom-used legal tool in subpoenaing a lawyer representing former President Donald Trump or his associates for otherwise privileged information.
Prosecutors investigating whether classified documents were mishandled at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate are attempting to compel testimony from his lawyer, Evan Corcoran, by relying on the “crime-fraud exception” to override attorney-client privilege claims, news outlets reported.
The exception, which a judge can approve when there’s evidence the defendant relied on the lawyer’s advice to advance an ongoing or future crime, is believed to have been used in cases involving four Trump-affiliated lawyers since 2017. ...
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