Attorney/Client Privilege • Waiver • Ineffective Assistance Claim
Commonwealth v. King, PICS Case No. 17-0713 (Pa. Super July 12, 2017) Fitzgerald, J. (17 pages).
The Post Conviction Relief Act court appropriately granted defendant a preclusion order since the private interview prosecutors sought with defendant’s trial counsel could easily have become a freewheeling inquiry into privileged matters falling outside the scope of defendant’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. The court affirmed an order of preclusion.
