State v. Storlazzi

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant should be granted access to records bearing on “the mental unsoundness of a witness (i.e., relating to a trait importing in itself a defective power of observation, recollection or communication
• access to psychiatric records is determined by whether they sufficiently disclose material probative of victim’s ability to comprehend, know and relate truth to justify breach of confidentiality
• victim’s records not disclosed when found not probative of victim’s ability to know and to relate truth correctly and victim’s psychiatric treatment was disclosed to jury through cross-examination
• “The linchpin of the determination of the defendant’s access to the records is whether they sufficiently disclose material especially probative of the ability to comprehend, know and correctly relate the truth”
• “The test of materiality is whether the omitted evidence, evaluated in the context of the entire record, creates a reasonable doubt that did not otherwise exist.”
• defendant’s access to witness’ psychiatric records for impeachment purposes rested on “whether they sufficiently disclose material ‘especially probative of the ability to “comprehend, know and correctly relate the truth . . . .”’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).