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STATE v. R.H.

No. 7768.

683 P.2d 269 (1984)

STATE of Alaska, Petitioner, v. R.H. and Mitchell Wetherhorn, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

As Modified on Rehearing July 6, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth H. Sheley, Asst. Dist. Atty., Victor C. Krumm, Dist. Atty., Anchorage, and Norman C. Gorsuch, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for petitioner.

Phillip Paul Weidner, and Linda R. MacLean, Drathman & Weidner, Anchorage, for respondent, R.H.

Gregory J. Grebe, Kelly, Luce & Grebe, Anchorage, for respondent, Mitchell Wetherhorn.

Donald N. Bersoff, Ennis, Friedman, Bersoff & Ewing, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae, American Psychological Association and Alaska Psychological Association.

Before BRYNER, C.J., and COATS and SINGLETON, JJ.

OPINION

SINGLETON, Judge.

The state petitions for review of an order of the superior court quashing a subpoena directing Dr. Mitchell Wetherhorn, a clinical psychologist, to appear before a grand jury. The grand jury is investigating charges that R.H., Dr. Wetherhorn's patient, sexually molested his daughter, S.H. The trial court found that any testimony Wetherhorn might give would be protected by the psychotherapist/patient privilege established in Alaska...

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