Statements to School Counselor Not Protected, Mich. Court Rules
Statements made by two male high school students to a school counselor about the sexual assault of a female student were not protected by teacher-student confidentiality, a Michigan appeals court has ruled.
The Feb. 8 ruling by a three-judge panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals concerned two of four former River Rouge High School football players charged in the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in 2000.
A state trial-court judge had suppressed the statements made by Lamar Toney, who was 17 at the time of the assault, and Justine Garrett, who was 16, in front of a school counselor in the...
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