State v. Fromme

SULLIVAN, Justice.

Ronald Keith Fromme, a defendant in a child molesting prosecution, contends that he has a constitutional right to inspect the records of a nongovernmental counseling *792agency, notwithstanding the General Assembly’s enactment of a “victim advocate privilege” shielding such records from discovery. Because neither the Due Process Clause nor the Sixth Amendment requires disclosure of information protected by this privilege in the present case, we enforce the victim advocate privilege as enacted.

Background

Crisis Connection, Inc., is a nonprofit organization that “provide[s]…