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SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled prosecutors cannot use key evidence in the case of an Artesia teenager accused of killing her newborn baby. Two years ago, defense attorney Gary Mitchell asked the state Supreme Court to exclude anything Alexee Trevizo said to a doctor in the emergency room at Artesia General Hospital. “The Supreme Court ruled again today, and they ruled before that the doctor-patient privilege is alive and well in New Mexico,” Mitchell said. Trevizo faces a first-degree murder charge after prosecutors said she threw her newborn baby into a bathroom trash can at the hospital in January 2023. The court said Trevizo never waived physician-patient confidentiality. Justices wrote that the doctor “ambushed” Trevizo with police officers in the room and shared her medical history without her permission or warning. “When you go in to see a doctor and you’re being treated, we’re not going to share your whole medical record with the entire world.
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SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled prosecutors can’t use key evidence in the case of an Artesia teen accused of killing her newborn baby. Justices ruled prosecutors can’t use the statements Alexee Trevizo made in the presence of police. They ruled a physician-patient confidentiality privilege was in effect when that happened in January 2023 at Artesia General Hospital. Trevizo allegedly told a doctor she didn’t know she was pregnant before giving birth to a baby in a bathroom. She allegedly said she didn’t know what to do with him since he wasn’t crying.
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SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled prosecutors cannot use key evidence in the case of an Artesia teenager accused of killing her newborn baby. Two years ago, defense attorney Gary Mitchell asked the state Supreme Court to exclude anything Alexee Trevizo said to a doctor in the emergency room at Artesia General Hospital. “The Supreme Court ruled again today, and they ruled before that the doctor-patient privilege is alive and well in New Mexico,” Mitchell said. Trevizo faces a first-degree murder charge after prosecutors said she threw her newborn baby into a bathroom trash can at the hospital in January 2023. The court said Trevizo never waived physician-patient confidentiality. Justices wrote that the doctor “ambushed” Trevizo with police officers in the room and shared her medical history without her permission or warning. “When you go in to see a doctor and you’re being treated, we’re not going to share your whole medical record with the entire world.
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