body: If a lawyer suspects that a client shall commit an imminent crime, then attorney-client privilege ceases and communication is not privileged. But what if the lawyer is *unsure* whether the crime is about be committed? For example, consider this hypothetical: 
  
  
  
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  > A client informs their lawyer after killing someone through torture 
  >  (for example, by burying them alive), and also of the location of the killing. 
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  If the victim has already died, then the crime is murder; so presumably this communication is privileged.  
  
  However, if the lawyer doesn't know definitely that the person has died (attempted murder),  
  
  then furtherance of that crime **may** be prevented. 
  
  
  Does the lawyer have a duty to report the information to the police?  
  
  Are there any legal implications if the lawyer is wrong?
  
  
  
title: Does "furtherance of a crime" exception to attorney–client privilege apply if the attorney is unsure?