SAN FRANCISCO — An obscure insurance-fraud case that grew into a federal courthouse spectacle — complete with trial counsel getting subpoenaed in the run-up to trial — is back. With a new twist.
In 2007, a husband and wife were tried separately for torching their car and claiming it was stolen to cash in on insurance money. Now in the habeas corpus stage, the case is raising questions of attorney-client privilege in the context of joint-defense agreements often used in multi-defendant prosecutions. On Wednesday, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a party to a joint-defense agreement doesn’t unilaterally waive privilege for the other person by lodging an ineffective-assistance of counsel claim, as the convicted wife, Katherine Paiz, has done.
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