LeCroy v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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1. “We agree with the lower court that [the defendant] waived his attorney-client privilege when he filed a motion for postconviction relief claiming ineffective assistance of counsel. In our opinion, such a waiver includes not only privileged communications between defendant and counsel, but also must necessarily include information relating to strategy ordinarily protected under the work-product doctrine. Under such circumstances, the State will ordinarily be entitled to examine the trial attorney's entire file. However, the defendant may move to exclude from discovery any portion of the file which contains matters unrelated to the crimes for which the defendant was convicted, such as evidence of other crimes. In this event, the court shall conduct an incamera inspection of that portion of the file in question to determine whether it should be disclosed.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 754 So. 2d 702 - Trepal v. State · 775 So. 2d 909 - Arbelaez v. State

2. “We have before us an interlocutory appeal of a disclosure order in a postconviction capital proceeding under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.850. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(1), Fla. Const.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 754 So. 2d 702 - Trepal v. State