Harris v. Baltimore Sun Co.

RODOWSKY, Judge.

Procedurally, this appeal involves a newspaper’s action under the Public Information Act to obtain the records of certain expenses incurred by the Office of the Public Defender (OPD) in defending a highly publicized, capital murder prosecution. Substantively, this appeal involves the scope of counsel’s duty of confidentiality under Rule 1.6 of the Maryland Lawyers’ Rules of Professional Conduct (MR).

*598OPD is created by Md.Code (1957, 1990 Repl.VoL), Art. 27A. It is “the policy of the State of Maryland to provide for the realization of the constitutional guarantees of counsel in…