California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Pride, 242 Cal.Rptr.3d 297, 31 Cal.App.5th 133 (Cal. App. 2019):
accused is not a passive victim of government intrusion; "rather ... by taking a companion into his confidence, [the accused has] in essence extended his zone of privacy to embrace the companion as to any confidences so disclosed. There is simply no constitutional principle that prohibits the recipient of a confidence from breaching the trust reposed in him not to disclose it to others, including the police." ( People v. Phillips (1985) 41 Cal.3d 29, 53, 222 Cal.Rptr. 127, 711 P.2d 423.)
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