PEOPLE v. SINSKI


88 N.Y.2d 487 (1996)

669 N.E.2d 809

646 N.Y.S.2d 651

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Richard Sinski, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 9, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurie S. Hershey, Garden City, for appellant.

James M. Catterson, Jr., District Attorney of Suffolk County, Riverhead (Michael J. Miller and Glenn Green of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge KAYE and Judges TITONE, BELLACOSA, SMITH, LEVINE and CIPARICK concur.


SIMONS, J.

Defendant has been convicted of several crimes, all based on evidence that he unlawfully obtained drug prescriptions from his dentists and physicians. He contends the judgment must be reversed because the evidence supporting them was privileged. The courts below held that the information was not privileged because of the exception contained in Public Health Law § 3373. We conclude that statute...

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