Expert: Package to Holmes’ psychiatrist may not be privileged

Expert: Package to joker Holmes’ psychiatrist may not be privileged

July 27, 2012

Expert: Package to Holmes’ psychiatrist may not be privileged
Tom Watkins
CNN

A medical ethicist who is also a lawyer disputed an assertion of privilege made Friday by a lawyer for the suspect in last week’s mass shooting inside a Colorado movie theater over the contents of a package he allegedly sent to his psychiatrist.

The key factor is whether she has information about the alleged crime, said Prof. Arthur Caplan, head of medical ethics at New York University’s Langone Medical Center.

“Once there has been a crime, I believe, she has a duty to notify that she has information about that crime,” said Prof. Arthur Caplan, head of medical ethics at New York University’s Langone Medical Center, said Caplan.

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