Expert: Package to Holmes' psychiatrist may not be privileged

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(CNN) -- A medical ethicist who is also a lawyer disputed an assertion of privilege made Friday by a lawyer for the suspect in last week's mass shooting inside a Colorado movie theater over the contents of a package he allegedly sent to his psychiatrist.

The key factor is whether she has information about the alleged crime, said Prof. Arthur Caplan, head of medical ethics at New York University's Langone Medical Center.

"Once there has been a crime, I believe, she has a duty to notify that she has information about that crime," said Prof. Arthur Caplan, head of medical ethics at New York University's Langone Medical Center, said Caplan.

Police can subpoena the record, he said, "and they would certainly get it." ...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/27/us/colorado-shooter-package/

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1. Well, if the package has a note stating that "I am going to theater xyz and opening fire

at the Batman opening", and the psychiatrist read it and knew what it said and did not notify authorities - then there is sum splainin to do.

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2. package was found undelivered in mail room