California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Pack, 201 Cal.App.3d 679, 248 Cal.Rptr. 240 (Cal. App. 1988):
We decline to review privileged psychotherapeutic records upon such a minimal showing. A person's credibility is not in question merely because he or she is receiving treatment for a mental health problem. To subject every witness in a criminal prosecution to an in camera review of their psychotherapist's records would be the invasion of privacy which the psychotherapist-patient privilege is intended to prevent. (People v. Stritzinger (1983) 34 Cal.3d 505, 511, 194 Cal.Rptr. 431, 668 P.2d 738; In Re Lifschutz (1970) 2 Cal.3d 415, 431-432, 85 Cal.Rptr. 829, 467 P.2d 557.)
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