{"id":64125,"date":"2026-05-22T17:31:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64125"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:31:30","slug":"ny1-a-mental-health-defense-waives-rep-in-the-medical-records-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64125","title":{"rendered":"NY1: A mental health defense waives REP in the medical records about it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When the accused raises a mental health defense, he waives any reasonable expectation of privacy in the records. S.M. v. City of N.Y., 2026 NY Slip Op 03248, 2026 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3413 (1st Dept. May 21, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[T]he defendant admitted that he possessed a firearm stored in his dresser, and this admission formed the basis for probable cause for a search warrant.\u201d People v. Novotny, 2026 NY Slip Op 03187 (2d Dept. May 20, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s Fourth Amendment and other ineffective assistance of counsel claims presented in a successor habeas are denied. Issues already raised and decided or waived. In re Gillis, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 14286 (11th Cir. May 18, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was reasonable to conclude that defendant driver of the car was the owner who was apparently \u201cdriving after being certified a habitual offender.\u201d State v. Hobbs, 2026 N.H. LEXIS 91 (Apr. 7, 2026).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the accused raises a mental health defense, he waives any reasonable expectation of privacy in the records. S.M. v. City of N.Y., 2026 NY Slip Op 03248, 2026 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3413 (1st Dept. May 21, 2026).* \u201c[T]he &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64125\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,20,18,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-preclusion","category-probable-cause","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64126,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64125\/revisions\/64126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}