State v. Jancsek

The issue is whether the court’s order that defendant’s lawyer produce a letter in the lawyer’s possession, written by defendant to a third person, violates defendant’s rights under OEC 503 (lawyer-client privilege) or the guarantees of Article I, section 12, of the Oregon Constitution or the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States against compelled self-incrimination. We hold that defendant’s argument on OEC 503 is not well taken. We hold that his constitutional privileges were not violated.

The following facts are undisputed. Defendant and Pamela (the victim)…