Elder Abuse

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A trial court improperly <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/elderabuse.pdf"><strong>denied</strong></a> a defendant's motion to exclude evidence of statements she made to a counselor admitting that she had smothered her grandmother with a pillow, an Oregon appeals court ruled, finding that the state’s elder abuse reporting statutes “only abrogate privileged communications to the extent that a report be submitted.” </span>

SALEM, Ore. – A trial court improperly denied a defendant’s motion to exclude evidence of statements she made to a counselor admitting that she had smothered her grandmother with a pillow, an Oregon appeals court ruled, finding that the state’s elder abuse reporting statutes “only abrogate privileged communications to the extent that a report be submitted.”

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