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As everyone has read today, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to stop the State Bar of Arizona from investigating him and attorneys associated with his office for ethical violations.  Three of the 10 complaints have been dropped and Thomas wants the other seven dropped now too.

In the Arizona Republican story Thomas worries the bar investigation threatens the integrity of “attorney-client privilege.”

Here is an exert from Thomas’ 1994 book Crime and the Sacking of America: The Roots of Chaos:

The attorney-client privilege is a rule of evidence that holds that communications between a lawyer and his client are "privileged," not admissible in court as evidence.  The rule thus allows the defendant to confide his guilt to his attorney in preparing his defense.  In doing so, the rule does more than bar otherwise admissible hearsay evidence from admission against the offender in court.  The attorney-client privilege allows the attorney and client to identify and remedy the weak spots in the defendant's case, and, in the process, to conceal them from the jury.  The defendant and his counsel, rather than cooperating to ensure justice, work together to seek what is, in the final analysis, an unjust acquittal. (p.76)