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“Then I’m afraid I’m going to have to subpoena you. I have no other choice.”
“You do what you have to do and I’ll do the same.” Evans hung up.
DuBose sat back and sighed. “Damn.”
“Trouble?”
She looked up to see Jeff Lee standing in the side doorway of the garage.
“A witness we really, really needed is not going to cooperate.”
“Can you force her to come in?”
“Maybe, but it will take time, time we don’t have,” replied DuBose.
“I guess you can’t prove what you need some other way?”
“I suppose I need a miracle.”
“Well, here’s prayin’ for one,” said Jeff.
“I guess you did that a lot in Vietnam. Did you ever find one?”
“I’m standin’ here, aren’t I?”
* * *
Jack sat across from Craig Baker in Norfolk. The divorce lawyer stared stoically back.
Jack said, “Okay, let’s look at this logically. The rule in question covers privileged communications between counsel and client.”
“Correct,” agreed Baker.
“And what you sent to Mrs. Randolph was such a communication?”
“Yes.”
“I saw a scrap of it. They looked like pleadings.”
“They were draft pleadings that were to be filed in court once finalized.”
“But why on earth did you send them to the Randolphs’ house?”
Baker now looked confused. “No, no, they went to a P.O. box that Anne maintained for our correspondence, not her home.”
“Well, someone at your office got that wrong. And we found the empty package in Mr. Randolph’s study. So I think he read and then burned the pages.”
“My God,” muttered a clearly distraught Baker. “I can’t believe this.”
Jack thought of something. “I understand that you specialize in divorce?”
“Yes. I told your colleague that already.”
“Okay. Revealing that specialty in court would not break the attorney-client privilege, since I assume you hold yourself out publicly as a divorce lawyer.”
Baker nodded slowly. “Y-yes, that is correct.”
“Now, the fact that you were Mrs. Randolph’s lawyer involves no disclosure of attorney-client privilege, does it? I mean, you were going to file a lawsuit for divorce in court where it would be a matter of public record. So you could say that you were Mrs. Randolph’s lawyer without disclosing communications between the two of you. Right?”
