In Re Subpoena No. 22.

KELLY, Judge:

In this appeal we are asked to decide whether the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas properly denied appellant’s, A.B.’s, motion to quash Subpoena No. 22. Specifically, we must determine whether the privilege accorded psychotherapist-client communications bars the disclosure of previous communications between a client and his psychotherapist to a special grand juiy investigating the client’s murder. We hold that, under the unique circumstances of this case, the psychotherapist-client privilege becomes a qualified privilege after the murder of the client and that privileged…