The issue, one of first impression, is whether and under what circumstances, the attorney-client privilege (CPLR 4503) should yield to a criminal defendant's constitutional right of confrontation under the Sixth Amendment, where the witness faces possible self-incrimination by such cross-examination.
The defendant stands indicted, inter alia, for the murder of his six-day-old...
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