Prosecutors push to speak with Limbaugh doctors

[CatWoman]

WEST PALM BEACH — Prosecutors redoubled efforts to talk with Rush Limbaugh's medical providers, arguing in court Tuesday that they should be allowed to as part of their doctor-shopping investigation of the conservative talk-show king.

Attorneys for Limbaugh kicked up their aggressive defense too, seeking to hold prosecutors in contempt for allegedly leaking information to the media.


Separately, Roy Black, an attorney for Limbaugh, argued that the confidentiality between a doctor and patient is a privilege not pierced — even by criminal investigators. The law requires a waiver from Limbaugh to speak with his doctors, argued Black, and that was not forthcoming.

"They cannot force Mr. Limbaugh to supply their evidence for them," Black said.

Limbaugh, 54, of Palm Beach, has not been charged with a crime. He's been a target of a Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office investigation since his former housekeeper told a story of rampant prescription drug abuse by Limbaugh. Limbaugh has publicly acknowledged an addiction to painkillers.

Assistant State Attorney James Martz argued that he needs to ask basic questions of Limbaugh's doctors to responsibly investigate if a crime of doctor-shopping has been committed.

"I would be devastated, I kid you not, to go forward with a case against Rush Limbaugh or anybody else in the state of Florida to find out at trial... that we put somebody through a criminal prosecution wrongly or inappropriately," Martz told Circuit Judge David Crow.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/pbccentral/content/local_news/epaper/2005/11/09/s3b_limbaugh_1109.html

[opihimoimoi]

1. If Rash has nothing to hide, he would relent...but, instead, he shows all

the guilty signs of stonewalling and denial.

[Missy Vixen]

2. Ooooooh! It's heating up!

:popcorn:

:toast:

Julie

[AlCzervik]

3. you know i wonder if they have all of the different prescription paper

from various pharmacies he went to already and they need his doctors to verify them. Pharmacies must have to keep those little slips on file for a number of years i would think.

[Rainscents]

4. I'm sure they do, however, they probably want to Dr's on stand under oath

sill it out.

[AlCzervik]

5. oh please be on court tv, please, pretty please.

[CatWoman]

6. *Paging Nancy Grace*

:D

seriously, tho, I can't wait to have this in the MSM news cycle to join the other sorry assholes:

Scooter
Rove
Cheney
Delay
Frist

[AlCzervik]

8. "The criminal 6"

:o

[sasquatch]

7. NAH, NAH, NAH, GONNA HAVE A GOOD TIME, HEY, HEY, HEY!!

:D:popcorn:

[CatWoman]

10. hey-ba you!!

[Verve]

9. How much will this cost Rush if this goes all the way to the Supreme Court

Keep on spending Rush's money, attorneys. Get him to sweat like the pig he is!

[UTUSN]

11. LIMBOsevic Was Claiming Victory Today

Of course, he started off by saying he couldn't talk about the case AT ALL, but that e-mailers and callers kept asking about an AP story about developments in his case, and then he went on to BLAB as he always does, contradicting himself. He claimed that on Monday, 11-7, the prosecuters had "admitted in open court" that they did not have ANY EVIDENCE "constituting a criminal offense".

If he gets off, credit another Democratic lawyer.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

12. They got DNA from Clinton, didn't they. Then just shut up about privacy

pig boy.