State v. Adams

During pre-trial proceedings in this case, defense counsel contends that a motion1 was made which asserted that, were the defendant’s previous lawyer and the lawyer’s investigator called by the state as witnesses, then the defendant would exercise the attorney-client privilege under OEC 503(2). OEC 503 (2)2 provides that a client has a privilege to refuse to allow his lawyer or his lawyer’s representative to disclose confidential communications.

The defendant previously had been represented by another lawyer in this same case. The defendant wished to exclude testimony of conversations he had…