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Limbaugh Will Walk

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Law, Media

After this latest court decision, that’s my prediction.

Roy Black, Rush Limbaugh’s attorney, issued the following statement regarding Judge David F. Crow’s decision today prohibiting prosecutors from asking the talk show host’s doctors about his medical treatment and condition or information he shared with his doctors during his care and treatment.

Judge Crow’s ruling upholds our argument that the State cannot breach doctor-patient confidentiality just because it has obtained some medical records, and thus the state cannot ask the doctors its questions posed to the court during the hearing.

Judge Crow’s decision prohibits the State from questioning Mr. Limbaugh’s physicians about “the medical condition of the patient and any information disclosed to the healthcare practitioner by the patient in the course of the care and treatment of the patient.”

We are pleased with the court’s ruling upholding the patient’s statutory right of doctor-patient confidentiality. We’ve said from the start that there was no doctor shopping but Mr. Limbaugh should not have to give up his right to doctor-patient confidentiality to prove his innocence.

The medical records that the State has seized and reviewed now for nearly six months show that Mr. Limbaugh received legitimate medical treatment for legitimate medical reasons. Mr. Limbaugh has not been charged with a crime and he should not be charged.

Listen, regardless of what I think about his politics, if Rush has a drug problem I think he should get help.

Let’s hope this latest decision, and his possible exoneration, doesn’t stop that if it needs to happen.

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One Response to “Limbaugh Will Walk”

sleipner Says:
December 14th, 2005 at 11:37 am
This hypocrite will likely continue his doctor shopping and drug snorting, while all the time laying into the “liberals” who supposedly made the whole story up about him and who want to legalize the very drugs he’s abusing…

There’s nothing quite so self-righteous as a sinner who is in denial about his own sins.

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