The privilege does not apply if a lawyer knows that his client either is committing or will commit a crime.
A lawyer doesn't have to help a client commit murder.
The only issue, they say, is whether their client committed the murders.
He said from reading the transcript he still could not tell for sure whether his client had committed perjury.
He told the jury that his client, whose bloody fingerprints were found at the scene, committed the murders.
Did you see our client commit any of these alleged crimes?
Then your witness did not see my client commit murder?
"That's where a defense attorney comes in-we convince the jury that the client may not have committed the crime."
There's no evidence whatever that my client ever committed any of those acts to your knowledge, is there?