Herbert Paul B
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2004;32(1):91-5.
Legal doctrines do not stand still, but instead evolve and tend to grow and to spawn what law school academicians fondly term progeny. Tarasoff is no exception. In an expanding list of court decisions, psychiatric patients are being convicted of crimes by virtue of actions by their psychiatrists or psychotherapists purportedly based on the duty to warn. One recent case has featured surreptitious evidence-gathering by a psychiatrist, the latest progeny of Tarasoff.
法律原则并非一成不变,而是不断演变,往往会发展并衍生出法学院学者们亲切称呼为“后代”的东西。塔拉索夫案也不例外。在越来越多的法院判决中,精神科患者因其精神科医生或心理治疗师据称基于警告义务采取的行动而被判定有罪。最近有一个案例的特点是一名精神科医生进行了秘密证据收集,这是塔拉索夫案的最新衍生案例。