Prosecutors seeking to speak with a patient’s doctors at a psychiatric facility were rebuffed by a judge who said they failed to show that access to the man’s treating staff outweighed his right to confidentiality.
The Nassau County District Attorney’s Office asked to speak with “W.T.”‘s doctors in preparation for a hearing to see if, decades after a plea to murder by reason of mental disease or defect, the man remained dangerously mentally ill and needed to be retained at a Manhattan psychiatric center.
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