Prosecutors barred from using mental health records of defendant in fatal shooting of corrections officer

FILE — Great Seal of Arkansas in a court room in Washington County. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/ANDY SHUPE)
FILE — Great Seal of Arkansas in a court room in Washington County. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/ANDY SHUPE)

A Pulaski County Circuit judge on Friday barred prosecutors from accessing the mental-health records of a Maumelle man accused of murdering a Corrections Department officer, stating that medical privacy laws protect the materials from being released without the 39-year-old defendant's permission.

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