{"id":2329,"date":"2020-07-24T23:24:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T03:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2020-07-24T23:24:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T03:24:38","slug":"6th-amendment-right-of-confrontation-and-mental-health-records-in-sexual-assault-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/6th-amendment-right-of-confrontation-and-mental-health-records-in-sexual-assault-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"6th Amendment right of Confrontation and Mental health records in Sexual Assault cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Supreme Court has its eye on mental health record privilege<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>A Colorado case involving a dispute over murder versus suicide begs the question: are mental health records absolutely subject to psychologist-patient privilege, or is there a set of circumstances where they can be revealed to the accused to aid in defense? The Supreme Court is awaiting briefing in Perez v. Colorado, 19-1357.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is psychologist-patient privilege?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/6th-amendment-right-of-confrontation-and-mental-health-records-in-sexual-assault-cases\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading 6th Amendment right of Confrontation and Mental health records in Sexual Assault cases\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court has its eye on mental health record privilege \u00a0A Colorado case involving a dispute over murder versus suicide begs the question: are mental health records absolutely subject to psychologist-patient privilege, or is there a set of circumstances where they can be revealed to the accused to aid in defense? The Supreme Court is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex-crimes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>6th Amendment right of Confrontation and Mental health records in Sexual Assault cases &#8212; Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog &#8212; July 24, 2020<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Supreme Court has its eye on mental health record privilege \u00a0A Colorado case involving a dispute over murder versus suicide begs the question: are mental &#8212; July 24, 2020\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/6th-amendment-right-of-confrontation-and-mental-health-records-in-sexual-assault-cases\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"6th Amendment right of Confrontation and Mental health records in Sexual Assault cases &#8212; 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