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HARRIS v. BALTIMORE SUN

No. 95, September Term, 1992.

330 Md. 595 (1993)

625 A.2d 941

STEPHEN E. HARRIS v. THE BALTIMORE SUN CO. ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 8, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew H. Baida, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., and Carolyn A. Quattrocki, Asst. Atty. Gen., all on brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Mary R. Craig (Doyle & Craig, P.A., Baltimore), both on brief, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ.

RODOWSKY, Judge.

Procedurally, this appeal involves a newspaper's action under the Public Information Act to obtain the records of certain expenses incurred by the Office of the Public Defender (OPD) in defending a highly publicized, capital murder prosecution. Substantively, this appeal involves the scope of counsel's duty of confidentiality under Rule 1.6 of the Maryland Lawyers' Rules of Professional Conduct (MR).

OPD is created by Md.Code (1957, 1990 Repl...

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