Tiger Woods
Choose Grants Subpoena for Prescription Drug Information
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Prosecutors will get the possibility to see Tiger Woods‘ prescription drug data, a choose has dominated.
In a listening to at Martin County Circuit Courtroom in Florida on Tuesday, the choose granted the state’s request to subpoena data of Tiger’s meds as a part of their DUI investigation.
The choose gave prosecutors permission to entry his prescription data on file at Lewis Pharmacy in Palm Seaside … following his arrest in Florida earlier this 12 months.
Tiger’s lawyer, Douglas Duncan, was the one who requested Tuesday’s listening to … saying the subpoena violates Tiger’s privateness.
Whereas the choose OK’d the subpoena, a protecting order might be issued to restrict entry to the golf champ’s data. The order will make sure that solely prosecutors, legislation enforcement, skilled witnesses and Tiger’s workforce have permission to acquire.
They don’t seem to be going to be obtainable by state open data legislation … which implies no peeping from the general public.
Prosecutors say they want to have a look at the data to determine how typically Tiger stuffed his prescriptions earlier than he rolled his automobile.
Based on ESPN, the movement for the subpoena exhibits the state can also be after data about what number of drugs had been in his prescriptions, what the dosage quantities had been, and whether or not or not they included warnings about driving whereas taking them.
As you understand, police say Tiger had two hydrocodone drugs in his pocket on the time of the March 27 crash. He pleaded not responsible to the DUI.
