Tiger Woods fights subpoena for prescription drug records

Tiger Woods‘Attorney is combating prosecutors’ makes an attempt to subpoena the 15-time main champion’s prescription drug records from a pharmacy, in accordance with courtroom records filed Wednesday.

In a response to the state’s movement for a subpoena, lawyer Douglas Duncan wrote that Woods has a constitutional proper to privateness curiosity in his prescription records and requested a listening to to find out whether or not prosecutors must be allowed to acquire Woods’ records on file at Lewis Pharmacy in Palm Beach, Florida.

“This right is admittedly not absolute should the State show the relevance of the records to its criminal investigation and thus warrant intrusion into Mr. Woods’ privacy,” Duncan wrote within the movement.

Prosecutors are requesting the variety of occasions Woods’ prescriptions had been stuffed from Jan. 1 to March 27, the variety of capsules, the dosage quantities and any directions that accompanied the capsules, together with warnings about driving whereas taking them, in accordance with the movement for a subpoena.

woods pleaded not guilty in his DUI case on March 31, 4 days after his SUV clipped a trailer and rolled over on its facet not removed from his house in Hobe Sound, Florida. Officers stated he was impaired and had two capsules in his pants pocket.

Woods is charged with misdemeanor DUI and refusal to undergo a lawful check and distracted driving, a shifting violation.

Woods stated in an announcement following his arrest that he was stepping away from skilled golf to hunt remedy and give attention to his well being. It is believed that he entered a remedy facility in Switzerland earlier this month.

Duncan stated the protection objected to the issuance of a subpoena and requested a courtroom listening to to find out if the prescription drug records are “relevant to a criminal investigation.”

If the courtroom decides to grant the state’s request for a subpoena, Duncan requested the choose to enter a protecting order that will “ensure Woods’ prescription records only be viewed by the State, its law enforcement officers, any State experts, and the Defense.”

“The records shall not be disclosed to any third parties, including Order prohibiting dissemination of the records by the State in response to any public records request,” Duncan wrote. “If and when it becomes necessary for the State to publicly disclose said records or any portion of said records, that a hearing must be held to determine the necessity of said disclosure.”