State v. Pierson

This case is an appeal from a remand hearing ordered by this court in State v. Pier-son, 201 Conn. 211, 514 A.2d 724 (1986). In that case, the defendant had sought at trial to examine the victim’s psychiatric social worker to discover whether he had any information that the defendant could use to impeach the victim’s credibility. At the trial court proceedings, the defendant had been denied permission to inquire about the treatment of the victim because such information was shielded from disclosure by the psychiatrist-patient privilege.1 On appeal, the defend*685ant claimed that his sixth…