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SCULL v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. B035045.

206 Cal.App.3d 784 (1988)

254 Cal. Rptr. 24

ALVIS JOE SCULL, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.

December 16, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

S.R. Balash, Jr., for Petitioner.

Linda F. Robertson as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Thomas W. Sneddon, Jr., District Attorney, and Gerald McC. Franklin, Deputy District Attorney, for Real Party in Interest.

McKenna, Conner & Cuneo, Aaron M. Peck, Daniel H. Willick and Royanne T. Kashiwahara as Amici Curiae for Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

STONE (S.J.), P.J.

Alvis Joe Scull (hereafter referred to as petitioner) seeks relief by way of a writ of mandate to compel respondent superior court to set aside its order allowing representatives of the district attorney's office to contact petitioner's former patients. We find that the respondent superior court order violated the psychotherapist-patient privilege (Evid. Code...

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