Testimony from a psychiatrist about a parolee’s disruptive behavior at a Bronx treatment center violated the man’s medical confidentiality rights and led to an improper finding of a parole violation, a state judge has ruled.

Bronx Supreme Court Justice April Newbauer granted a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in People ex rel. Davis v. Warden, 251648-2015, vacating a parole violation warrant against Michael Davis and ordered that he receive a new parole hearing.

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