{"id":976,"date":"2021-07-01T08:40:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fanneylaw.com\/blog\/?p=976"},"modified":"2021-10-10T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T16:21:57","slug":"confessions-to-a-spouse-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fanneylaw.com\/blog\/confessions-to-a-spouse-in-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions to a spouse in North Carolina\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Everyone seems to have a passing familiarity with the\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">attorney-client privilege\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and the secret nature of communications between <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-979 lazyload\" src=\"\/jshared\/img\/icons\/spinner.svg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.fanneylaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/What-is-Marital-Privilege-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"What is Marital Privilege?\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fanneylaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/What-is-Marital-Privilege-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fanneylaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/What-is-Marital-Privilege-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fanneylaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/What-is-Marital-Privilege-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.fanneylaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/What-is-Marital-Privilege.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span data-contrast=\"auto\">someone facing allegations of criminal charges and their defense lawyer.\u00a0 <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That protection of confidentiality encourages the defendant, the person accused of a crime, to be honest with their lawyer.\u00a0 Honesty with legal counsel helps avoid surprises and affords a path towards reliable legal advice in any given circumstance.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">There is no question under the NC criminal laws that what you confide to your criminal lawyer is confidential and privileged information.\u00a0 It\u2019s an important aspect to the defense of criminal charges, whether it&#8217;s for a felony or a misdemeanor \u2013 John Fanney, Raleigh Criminal Defense Attorney<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fanneylaw.com\/blog\/confessions-to-a-spouse-in-north-carolina\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Confessions to a spouse in North Carolina\u00a0\u00a0\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems to have a passing familiarity with the\u00a0attorney-client privilege\u00a0and the secret nature of communications between someone facing allegations of criminal charges and their defense lawyer.\u00a0 \u00a0 That protection of confidentiality encourages the defendant, the person accused of a crime, to be honest with their lawyer.\u00a0 Honesty with legal counsel helps avoid surprises and affords [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[177,178,176,180,179],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-defense","tag-communications-with-spouse","tag-husband-wife-privilege","tag-marital-privilege","tag-protected-communications","tag-rules-of-evidence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Confessions to a spouse in North Carolina\u00a0\u00a0 &#8212; 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