ROBERT PEARMAN, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• First Union Nat'l Bank v. Turney, 824 So. 2d 172 (Fla. 1st DCA 2001)
  …intended crime or fraud in order to forfeit the attorney-client privilege. The dispositive question is whether the attorney-client communications are part of the client’s effort to commit a crime or perpetrate a fraud. See Horning-Keating v. State, 777 So. 2d 438, 445-46 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001); Shell Oil Co., 638 So. 2d at 1051; see also Cigna Corp. v. Spears, 838 S.W. 2d 561, 568-569 (Tex.App.1992). On the other hand, where a client pursues a course of action in good faith which is determined only later to hav…
• Eight Hundred, Inc. v. Fla. Dep't OF Revenue, 837 So. 2d 574 (Fla. 1st DCA 2003)
  …determination of whether petitioner had waived its accountant-client privilege to be made in such a manner notwithstanding petitioner’s repeated objections would amount to a deprivation of procedural due process of law. See Horning-Keating v. State, 777 So. 2d 438, 446 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001) (opinion of Pleus, J.) (compelling testimony notwithstanding the assertion of an attorney-client privilege, based upon unsworn statements, would constitute a denial of due process of law; a full evidentiary hearing is requir…
• Dennis and Mary Hill v. State, 846 So. 2d 1208 (Fla. 5th DCA 2003)
  …1 (Fla. 3d DCA 2002)(psycho-therapist privilege); Nationwide Mutual Fire Ins.Co. v. Hess, 814 So. 2d 1240 (Fla. 5th DCA 2002)(attorney-client privilege); State v. Rivers, 787 So. 2d 952 (Fla. 2d DCA 2001) (medical records); Horning-Keating v. State, 777 So. 2d 438 (Fla. 5th DCA 2001)(attorney work product privilege); American Express Travel Related Services v. Cruz, 761 So. 2d 1206, 1207 (Fla. 4th DCA 2000)(attorney client privilege); State v. Patterson, 694 So. 2d 55 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997); State v. Finder, 678…

Authorities Cited

• Geis v. Chira, 712 So. 2d 1132 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998)
• Trovillo v. Fla. Dep't OF LAW Enf't, 762 So. 2d 1038 (Fla. 5th DCA 2000)