Must attorney allow an innocent man to be convicted to maintain client confidentiality?
Should an attorney who knows that her client committed a murder for which a wrongly convicted man spends 26 years in jail break her silence in abrogation of her attorney-client privilege?
To prevent an apparent ‘miscarriage of justice’ should she reveal her client’s guilt? If so, when? At the sentencing? After all appeals have been exhausted?
These are just some of the provocative issues a Kings County American Inn of Court panel, led by Judge Miriam Cyrulnik and Inn President Marc Dittenhoefer, demonstrated when Inn members gathered for their CLE-accredited session held at Brooklyn Bar Headquarters, 123 Remsen St.
Participation — which included a delicious buffet arranged by Inn Executive Director Jeff Feldman — was limited to members and offered two hours of Continuing Legal Education, one in practice the other in ethics.