Staats v. Ferrero

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that, so long as the defendant has access to the same information that would have been in the privileged records, “any information in those records would not be material to his defense”
• providing, “Unlike defendant Caruso, who arguably articulated a need to ascertain a specific piece of evidence to prove a fact material to his defense, defendant’s assertion of need merely voices a hope of corroborating evidence, untethered to any articulable facts”
• “As long as defendant is able to make a sound argument in his defense without having access to complainant’s privileged counseling records, any information in those records would not be material to his defense.”
• “As long as defendant is able to make a sound argument in his defense without having access to complainant’s privileged counseling records, any information in those records would not be material to his defense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).