Case ID: a3d_202/html/0042-04.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the INTEREST OF: J.M.G., a Minor
    Petition of: J.M.G.
    No. 550 MAL 2018
    Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
    February 13, 2019
    ORDER
   PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 13th day of February, 2019, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issue, as stated by Petitioner, is:

Where the trial court violates the psychiatrist/patient privilege of a minor who had previously been placed in a juvenile delinquency facility and ordered to participate in ongoing mental health treatment, and where the trial court allowed, over objection, statements made by the juvenile to his psychiatrist and/or psychologist to be provided to the Sexual Offender Assessment Board (SOAB) pursuant to an Act 21 civil commitment procedure, is the violation harmless error?