Kramer v. Bondi

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• confidential SRS records relating to child abuse investigations are discoverable from prosecution pursuant to V.R.Cr.P 16
• “The use of a dismissal sanction is proper only if the court finds that the defendant would be prejudiced by anything less than dismissal.”
• “The use of a dismissal sanction is proper only if the court finds that the defendant would be prejudiced by anything less than dismissal.”
• as SRS regularly provides information to state’s attorney on alleged child abuse, and works closely with state’s attorney in criminal and juvenile matters, SRS files are discoverable from prosecution pursuant to VR.Cr.E 16(c)
• “Because evidentiary privileges directly undercut the truth-seeking function of court proceedings, we will not construe a confidentiality statute as creating an evidentiary privilege unless the intent to do so is clear.”
• discovery sanctions should not be harsher than necessary to fulfill goals of discovery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).