On this appeal defendant contends that her warrantless arrest was unlawful because it was predicated upon the unauthorized disclosure of a confidential communication (see, CPLR 4505) and that her confession made thereafter must be suppressed as the "fruit of the poisonous tree". We disagree. The "clergyman-penitent" privilege is an evidentiary rule proscribing the revelation of privileged communications at a trial when the privilege...
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