John T Dawley

Prosecutors want the lawyer of Charles Stuart, who apparently committed suicide after his wife's mysterious shooting death, to break attorney-client privilege, two Boston newspapers reported. Suffolk County prosecutors are seeking to force lawyer John T. Dawley to tell a grand jury what he knows of the events surrounding the October, 1989, shooting that left Carol Stuart and her prematurely born son dead.

Prosecutors want the lawyer of Charles Stuart, who apparently committed suicide after his wife's mysterious shooting death, to break attorney-client privilege, two Boston newspapers reported. Suffolk County prosecutors are seeking to force lawyer John T. Dawley to tell a grand jury what he knows of the events surrounding the October, 1989, shooting that left Carol Stuart and her prematurely born son dead.

Charles Stuart's lawyer does not have to testify to a grand jury about a conversation he had with his client the day before Stuart leaped to his death from a bridge, the state Supreme Court ruled today. The court ruled that John T. Dawley's attorney-client privilege was not undone with his client's suicide last Jan. 4 that threw a final twist in the mysterious plot to kill Stuart's wife, Carol.