GOLDSMITH v. STATE

No. 146, September Term, 1993.

337 Md. 112 (1995)

EUGENE FRANKLIN GOLDSMITH v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 12, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Colvin, Asst. Public Defender, (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

M. Jennifer Landis, Asst. Atty. Gen., (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.


CHASANOW, Judge.

The issue this Court must resolve in the instant case is whether Maryland Rule 4-264 or the federal and/or state constitution entitles a defendant charged with child abuse and related sexual offenses to obtain pre-trial discovery review of the victim's psychotherapy records maintained by the victim's private psychotherapist. Our answer is no.

I.

The petitioner, Eugene Franklin Goldsmith, was charged with committing sexual child abuse...

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