They say it can’t be used against the client, but is there anything stopping the police from hearing about this, investigating, and then finding evidence that they totally would have found anyway?
Another way to do it would be to say that once this happens, the actual criminal is no longer allowed to be punished for it at all, just like if they were acquitted.
Personally, I’m still confused about why attorney client privilege exists in the first place. The rights are supposed to be to protect the innocent, and how exactly would that result in innocent people getting in trouble? I suppose you could have things where sometimes people aren’t clear on what the laws are (for example, someone writes software that they sell to a company on a subscription basis, the company stops paying but keeps using the software, and then the person walks into the building through unlocked doors and deletes it, and has no idea why they’re getting charged with burglary), so people would be afraid of talking to lawyers because they might accidentally admit to something they didn’t know was a crime. But if you say they have to say if it’s something they couldn’t have reasonably thought was anything but a crime, like if they admit to murdering something, then why would the attorney client privilege be important?
They say it can’t be used against the client, but is there anything stopping the police from hearing about this, investigating, and then finding evidence that they totally would have found anyway?
Another way to do it would be to say that once this happens, the actual criminal is no longer allowed to be punished for it at all, just like if they were acquitted.
Personally, I’m still confused about why attorney client privilege exists in the first place. The rights are supposed to be to protect the innocent, and how exactly would that result in innocent people getting in trouble? I suppose you could have things where sometimes people aren’t clear on what the laws are (for example, someone writes software that they sell to a company on a subscription basis, the company stops paying but keeps using the software, and then the person walks into the building through unlocked doors and deletes it, and has no idea why they’re getting charged with burglary), so people would be afraid of talking to lawyers because they might accidentally admit to something they didn’t know was a crime. But if you say they have to say if it’s something they couldn’t have reasonably thought was anything but a crime, like if they admit to murdering something, then why would the attorney client privilege be important?