Judge Considering When to Open Limbaugh Medical Records
Rush Limbaugh’s attorney urged a judge Tuesday to limit the medical records that prosecutors can review for their investigation into whether the conservative commentator illegally purchased painkillers.
Attorney Roy Black said the records, which were seized in 2003, should be reviewed by a judge before they are opened to prosecutors.“We’re talking about privacy matters and privileged matters,” Black told the judge. “The remedy is them not seeing the various procedures and medical things that have nothing do to with the items that they are investigating.”
Assistant State Attorney James Martz said investigators have agreed not to publicly disclose the personal details contained in the medical records. He urged Palm Beach Circuit Judge Jeffrey A. Winikoff to act quickly because the investigation already has been stalled more than 18 months by appeals.
“There’s not an investigation in criminal law that gets better with time. This thing has been protracted and protracted and protracted,” Martz said.
Could this be a case of selective prosecution? For eighteen months this has been lingering and yet no charges have been filed. Rush admitted he had a problem with painkillers and he has taken the necessary steps to get all of that straightened out – - so why all the dragging out of this issue?
Rush and his lawyers are being pressured from so many directions – - perhaps if his last name were Kerry or Clinton the records wouldn’t matter and the whole situation would be swept under the rug – - However he is a Limbaugh and in Florida that apparently means witch hunt.
“Assistant State Attorney James Martz said investigators have agreed not to publicly disclose the personal details contained in the medical records”- How big of them, considering that his medical records do not fall under the freedom of information act!:roll:
i hope the ACLU’s brief on behalf of Limbaugh is successful in its defense of his privacy.
although with the Patriot Act, privacy is not what it used to be. time was when the principle of the Constitution played out with the government being transparent and a citizens private life was just that – private. now, for many, the accepted principle has become the exact opposite.
that’s perverted.
This has nothing to do with the Patriot Act. Nor will they be trying to use RICO laws.
i was using the Patriot Act of an example of how the privacy of American citizens is being degraded.
i did not connect Limbaugh to the Patriot Act.
4- and it is a poor example. The PA has nothing to do with the case so why bring it up? Why would you not cite the law that protects him? I am sure the attorney will.
the issue is privacy, as far as i’m concerned. the patriot act has provisions for looking at a person’s medical as well as financial as well as library etc….
keeping that fact in the spotlight is just my way of being a good citizen. the tricky part, of course, is that those who disagree with me might say i ‘hate America’.
6-”patriot act has provisions for looking at a person’s medical as well as financial as well as library etc:.”- No kidding:roll: And the Act is used in terror related cases. Which last time I checked, this wasn’t.
yes i know Limbaugh is not a terrorist. not an Islamic one, anyhow. never said he was.
i was editorializing. ya know, taking advantage of a current situation, then connecting it to a tangential agenda.
politics.
8-”i was editorializing. ya know, taking advantage of a current situation, then connecting it to a tangential agenda.
politics.”- There are many words that come to mind for what you are attempting to do, but politics is not one of them:roll:
if i have a agenda this morning other than previously stated, it the one you imagine.
Poor Rush. If he was black and hooked on crack, he’d been in jail a long time ago. But the rich Rush will beat the rap. Drugs given to the rich by a doctor are ok. By the way, isn’t Florida run by Jeb Bush?
Ladies and gentlemen, we have officially found someone more innane and retarded than shitloh, I give you…JOHN JACKSON!
Gimme a Halliburton, JJ!!!
12- No kidding. And didn’t Rush buy them?:wink:
hey john,,, john JAAACKSSOOONNN (note emphasis). the chances of you being a moderate is about the same as a white man at a Nation of Islam meeting.