[IP] more on Diebold Voting Machine Whistle-Blower being prosecuted for "Stealing documents"]
Somewhere there is a line djf
Begin forwarded message:
From: Jonathan Goldstein <jonathan.goldstein@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: February 28, 2006 10:23:51 AM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Diebold Voting Machine Whistle-Blower being
prosecuted for "Stealing documents"]
Reply-To: jonathan@xxxxxxxxx
To Rob's question, the "whistle-blower" is being prosecuted because
he stole confidential attorney-client documents and attorney work
product and released them to the public. The documents were not his
and he took them and used them for his own purposes, substituting his
own judgment for that of the trained attorneys who had been retained
to give advice.
The reason we have attorney-client privilege and protection for
attorney work product is so that people facing difficult
circumstances know that they can speak candidly with their attorneys
as they seek advice.
For a word processor who has been given access to such documents to
reveal them at his own whim is the height of arrogance. Who knows
what advice Diebold was seeking at the time those documents were in
the hands of its attorneys? It surely was not up to Mr. Heller to
break the confidence established between the attorney and his client.
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