Lesser v. St. Louis & Suburban Railway Co.

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• holding the relevance, materiality, and admissibility of a witness's mental health records are within the sound discretion of the trial court
• adopting a \procedure that effectuates the legislative mandates of section 44-22-100 of the South Carolina Code [2018] and the constitutional protections of the Confrontation Clause.\
• discussing \a witness's state constitutional right to privacy\ relating to \confidential mental health records\ (footnote omitted)
• upholding a death sentence as proportional where the defendant kidnapped and killed the daughter of his ex-wife's boyfriend
• noting the novel issue before the Court was \whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to confront a witness trumps a witness's state constitutional right to privacy and statutory privilege to maintain confidential mental health records\
• noting the novel issue before the Court was \whether a criminal defendant's constitutional right to confront a witness trumps a witness's state constitutional right to privacy and statutory privilege to maintain confidential mental health records\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).