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IN RE NAVARRO

Docket No. 18114.

93 Cal.App.3d 325 (1979)

155 Cal. Rptr. 522

In re LINDA R. NAVARRO on Habeas Corpus.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

May 22, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Donald L. Clark, County Counsel, Lloyd M. Harmon, Jr., Chief Deputy County Counsel, and Cameron Reeves, Deputy County Counsel, for Appellant.

Peter B. Clarke for Respondent.

OPINION

STANIFORTH, J.

This case poses a narrow question. Is an attorney's act of handing a police report to the client a "communication" within the attorney-client privilege (Evid. Code, § 952)? We conclude such an act is a communication, is privileged and so affirm the superior court's granting the writ of habeas corpus and discharging the order of contempt.

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