is critical. it really is. look, you know, to the survivors and families, jill and i, my wife jill is not here today with me. she is in delaware right now. she had to go back up. jill and i have gotten to know many of you over the years. some of us have become friends for a long time. we ve kept in touch. mark, it s good to see you again and your family, and the losses may be different, circumstances, but we ve shared before us something that s helped our family. when my wife and daughter were killed in a tractor-trailer struck them, just after i got elected, my two boys weren t expected to live, and then later when my son beau, who was the attorney general and volunteered to spend a year in iraq died, stage 4, glioblastoma. my daughter ashley taped a message to the mirror, the way everything gets to me through my wife and daughter now is they know i have to shave in the morning, so they ll tape on the mirror, for real. so i see it when i m shaving. one day she left me a quot
that makes sense, if you could appeal everything all the time, you would almost never have a path to trial. yes and no. donald trump s team is going to try to stop evan corcoran from appearing at the trial and take his notes out of evidence. they want it not to be admissible. are there scenarios where attorney/client privilege is pierced only to not be allowed in trial, does that happen often? well, first, the piercing of attorney/client privilege doesn t happen often and it certainly doesn t happen often in criminal trials. like you said earlier, much of this is unprecedented, but we do have case law around attorney/client privilege and the crime fraud exception, which is applicable here. my guess is that the first ruling on the crime fraud exception issued by a federal district court judge in the district of columbia will hold up and that the government will be able to introduce this evidence at trial. that might be the basis for the thing we discussed a moment ago, an interlocut