A defendant who testifies in support of his justification defense that stab wounds on his body were inflicted by the decedent for whose murder he is being tried does not thereby waive the psychologist-client privilege established by CPLR 4507. It was, therefore, error, requiring reversal and a new trial, to permit the hospital psychologist, who interviewed defendant in order to determine whether he...
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