STATE v. PATTERSON

No. 96-2035.

694 So.2d 55 (1997)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Gregory Lynn PATTERSON, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied May 28, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Belle B. Turner, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Petitioner.

James Russo, Public Defender, and George McCarthy and Brian N. Onek, Assistant Public Defenders, Rockledge, for Respondent.


GOSHORN, Judge.

The State has filed a petition for writ of certiorari contending that the trial court departed from the essential requirements of law when it ordered that communications between the victim and her psychotherapist were subject to discovery by Gregory Lynn Patterson ("Defendant"). We grant the petition and quash the order.

After the State charged Defendant with three counts of sexual battery on a child and two counts of committing a lewd, lascivious...

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