CHULA VISTA, Calif. (CNS) – Records from a marriage and family therapist who treated Maya Millete will be released to the prosecution and defense in preparation for her husband’s upcoming murder trial, a judge ruled Thursday.
The order to release the records comes about two months before Larry Millete’s trial is slated to begin at the Chula Vista courthouse.
While typically such records would remain confidential without the patient’s consent, they were ordered released pursuant to evidentiary guidelines that deem a person to be presumed dead if they haven’t been heard from in five years. A “personal representative” for the deceased patient would then have the privilege to release such records, but no such person exists, attorneys said Thursday…