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STATE EX REL. CARROLL v. JUNKER

No. 41518.

79 Wn.2d 12 (1971)

482 P.2d 775

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, on the Relation of Charles O. Carroll, Petitioner, v. JOHN M. JUNKER et al., Respondents, HERBERT I. LAKEFISH, Petitioner.[*]

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

March 25, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles O. Carroll, Prosecuting Attorney, William L. Kinzel, Deputy, and Herbert I. Lakefish, for petitioners.

Slade Gorton, Attorney General, and James B. Wilson, Assistant, for respondents.

Ronald J. Perey, Landon R. Estep, and Edmund J. Wood, amici curiae.

HALE, J.

A law teacher and two of his students, conducting a class research project, were permitted by superior court order to examine 189 randomly selected mental illness files. Citing RCW 71.02.250, relating to mental illness cases, the prosecuting attorney and others challenge this order as a breach of confidentiality.

The statute reads:

All files in these cases shall be closed files subject to examination only on court order: Provided,...

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