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miki123211yesterday at 11:50 PM2 repliesview on HN

In the US, are Google queries about the law considered attorney-client privilege? What about library records? Browser history? Google Maps / Uber / car travel history (when traveling to an attorney's office)?

If somebody Googles "best attorney for murder NYC" a day after a murder is committed but before any case is filed against them (so they clearly had some reason to expect that case), could that be used as evidence?


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weird-eye-issuetoday at 9:40 AM

I'm not sure if you were actually asking the question but regardless the answer is that all of those absolutely can and are regularly used as evidence

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trollbridgetoday at 12:18 PM

Hans Reisee rather infamously checked out a book from the library about how to kill someone and hide the evidence.