State v. McGriff

Evans, Judge.

This is an appeal by the state from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Logan County ruling on the admissibility of a physician’s patient records seized during a search of the physician’s office and used to .support the indictment of the physician on criminal charges. The trial court ruled, on August 11, 1994, that the state was prohibited from using the patients’ medical records as evidence in the case, absent express permission from the patients themselves.

On December 2, 1992, a forty-two-count indictment was filed in Cuyahoga County against Dr. James McGriff and his…