Commonwealth v. Neumyer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:
1Opinion of the CourtCowin, J.
The defendant was charged in two indictments with rape and in a third indictment with indecent assault and battery on a person over the age of fourteen years.1 In preparing his defense, he sought certain records of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC). A Superior Court judge ordered BARCC to produce for the defendant a sanitized copy of its “hotline” records stating the time, date, and fact of a telephone communication between the victim and a rape counsellor. The judge concluded that these records were not privileged, but relevant, and thus discoverable pursuant to general discovery…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Commonwealth v. BishopMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
- In Re Subpoena Served Upon Jorge S. Zuniga, M.D. In Re Subpoena Served Upon Gary R. Pierce, M.D.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1983
- Commonwealth v. FullerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1996
- Vanderbilt v. Town of ChilmarkDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1997
- Santelli v. Electro-MotiveDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1999
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- Commonwealth v. CaceresMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2005
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