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09-30-2002, 07:44 PM
Judge says drug rehab center does not have to cooperate in case against Jeb Bush's daughter (http://www.kcbs.com/pages/kcbs/news/news_story.nsp?story_id=33302232&ID=kcbs&scategory=Computers)
Source: Associated Press News
Publication date: 2002-09-30
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A judge ruled Monday that staff members at the drug rehab center where Gov. Jeb Bush's daughter is receiving treatment do not have to answer police questions about a piece of crack allegedly found in her shoe.
Circuit Judge Belvin Perry ruled that federal law protecting a drug treatment patient's privacy outweighed the interest of police officers in a criminal investigation.
If the drug treatment counselors were forced to give testimony, then ``all patients who suffer relapses could be hauled out of treatment programs and into criminal courts on the whim of a state prosecutor or police officers,'' the judge wrote.
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Source: Associated Press News
Publication date: 2002-09-30
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- A judge ruled Monday that staff members at the drug rehab center where Gov. Jeb Bush's daughter is receiving treatment do not have to answer police questions about a piece of crack allegedly found in her shoe.
Circuit Judge Belvin Perry ruled that federal law protecting a drug treatment patient's privacy outweighed the interest of police officers in a criminal investigation.
If the drug treatment counselors were forced to give testimony, then ``all patients who suffer relapses could be hauled out of treatment programs and into criminal courts on the whim of a state prosecutor or police officers,'' the judge wrote.
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Click here to read more (http://www.kcbs.com/pages/kcbs/news/news_story.nsp?story_id=33302232&ID=kcbs&scategory=Computers)