Eason v. Turner

How courts have described this case

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• holding production was required where a witness’s “psychiatric difficulties might affect both her ability to accurately perceive events and her ability to relate the truth”
• noting the probability that the quality and probative value of the information in mental health records “may be better than anything that can be gleaned from other sources”
• stating in camera review still allowable even though sexual abuse defendant was in possession of evidence that the alleged victim had psychiatric diagnoses, struggled with substance abuse, and had accused others in the past of sexual abuse
• defendant had made a preliminary showing of materiality so as to entitle him to pretrial in camera inspection of victim's mental health treatment records
• defendant had made a preliminary showing of materiality so as to entitle him to pretrial in camera inspection of victim's mental health treatment records
• suppression of witness’ testimony was the only way to protect defendant’s right to fair trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).