Benton v. Superior Court, Navajo County

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that before medical records may be disclosed without the patient’s consent in a criminal case, the court must balance “the public’s interest in protecting victims” with “the privacy interest reflected in the physician– patient privilege”
• “We conclude that the privilege does not apply under the circumstances of this case because the public’s interest in protecting victims outweighs the privacy interest reflected in the physician-patient privilege.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).