United States Ex Rel. Edney v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the sixth amendment does not bar the prosecution’s use of a defense-retained psychiatrist
• concluding that the sixth amendment does not bar the prosecution's use of a defense-retained psychiatrist
• “The statements by the defendant to his psychiatrist were not admitted to establish the fact of his having committed the murder, but only to establish a basis for the psychiatrist’s evaluation of petitioner’s sanity at the time of the offense.”
• “Confidentiality is a sine qua non for successful psychiatric treatment.”
• court declined to freeze attorney-client-psychiatrist privilege into constitutional form
• court declined to freeze attorney-client-psychiatrist privilege into constitutional form

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).