CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Privileges
......Attorney-Client Privilege
.........Disclos. Not Protected: Examples
............Evidence: Possession/Alteration of
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No privilege if D's attorney alters or removes physical evidence, thus precluding DA from making same observation.

Attorney's duties to turn over evidence to police and provide information as to where found are self-executing and no motion or order should be required to enforce them.

A defendant may not permanently sequester physical evidence such as a weapon or other article used in the perpetration of a crime by delivering it to his attorney.