PEOPLE v. DIST. COURT, CITY & CTY. OF DENVER

No. 85SA343.

719 P.2d 722 (1986)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Petitioner, v. DISTRICT COURT In and For the CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, Colorado and Honorable John N. McMullen, one of the judges thereof, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

June 2, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman S. Early, Jr., Dist. Atty., Brooke Wunnicke, Chief Appellate Deputy, Andrew W. Loewi, Deputy Dist. Atty., Denver, for petitioner.

David F. Vela, Public Defender, Robin Desmond, Jeffrey S. Pagliuca, Deputy Public Defenders, Denver, for respondents.

Colorado Psychiatric Society, Joseph M. Epstein, Ending Violence Effectively, Charles Michaels, Denver, amicus curiae.


KIRSHBAUM, Justice.

In this original proceeding the People seek to prohibit a judge of the Denver District Court (respondent court) from enforcing an order compelling disclosure of a sexual assault victim's records of psychological treatment obtained subsequent to the sexual assault. We issued a rule to show cause and now make the rule absolute.

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The defendant in People v. Silva, No. 85CR1404, a criminal case pending in the respondent court...

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