Attorney-Client Privilege Essay Example

therefore, risk of him murdering another person anytime soon is highly improbable, so there is no imminent danger to the community. Also under due process the defense attorney’s obligation to his/her client is one of the illustrations of the due process prospective (377). So in this situation I, the attorney, am obligated to keep the client’s confession to myself. By breaking the attorney-client privilege, in a sense, I would be interfering with the client’s rights to due process.

While working as a defense attorney one cannot let their personal feeling interfere with his/her obligation to put on a spirited defense (377). Therefore, by releasing that the client has confessed to another murder, for which another has been convicted, one would not be actively defending their client, but rather, the opposite. I believe that doing anything with the client’s confession, is unethically and unprofessional. When one becomes a defense attorney they know at one point or another they are going to have to defend someone who is guilty of a horrible crime.

They are well aware of the attorney-client privilege, where they can only share information from the client if they believe that there is imminent danger. In this situation there is no imminent danger, therefore it is professionally unethical to share the information. It may not be morally ethical, knowing that another man is innocent, yet serving the sentence, but as a defense attorney one is expected to leave all of their emotions out of the courtroom, and they are expected to do whatever they can to defend their client. So in this situation I would keep the information to myself and honor

the attorney-client privilege.