Tiger Woods’ prescription drug records will be handed over to prosecutors in Florida DUI case

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STUART, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods ' medicine cause records volition beryllium handed implicit to prosecutors pursuing his March apprehension successful Florida connected suspicion of driving nether the influence, a justice ruled Tuesday morning.

Judge Darren Steele approved an statement betwixt Woods' defence lawyer and prosecutors pursuing a four-minute proceeding successful Martin County circuit court, conscionable northbound of Palm Beach County.

Prosecutors had issued a subpoena seeking copies of each medicine medicine records for the legendary golfer astatine a Palm Beach pharmacy from the commencement of the twelvemonth done the extremity of March. Defense lawyer Doug Duncan had antecedently argued that Woods has a law close to privateness erstwhile it comes to his medicine medications, but helium acknowledged during the proceeding that the close is not implicit and that prosecutors could marque a compelling statement for wherefore they were needed.

Meanwhile, prosecutors agreed to Duncan's petition for a protective bid limiting the merchandise of records lone to prosecutors, instrumentality enforcement officers, authorities experts and Woods' defence team.

Bob Jarvis, a instrumentality prof astatine Nova Southeastern University who is not connected to the case, said the statement and the judge's support seems mean for DUI case, peculiarly 1 that involves drugs alternatively of alcohol. Florida instrumentality considers a operator with a blood-alcohol contented of 0.08% oregon higher to beryllium impaired, but there's nary clear, measurable modular to find impairment for different drugs. That means prosecutors volition person to usage tract sobriety tests, serviceman grounds and different grounds to person jurors beyond a tenable uncertainty that Woods was impaired.

Jarvis said there's nary denotation truthful acold that Woods is receiving peculiar treatment, either much harsh oregon much lenient, due to the fact that of his personage status.

“We don’t cognize if the authoritative offered a plea, and a emblematic suspect would person taken the plea, and Tiger Woods decided not to instrumentality the plea,” Jarvis said. “But different than that, I deliberation that this is what would hap nary substance who the suspect was.”

Woods has pleaded not blameworthy to driving nether the influence. A sheriff’s bureau study said deputies recovered 2 symptom pills successful his pocket, and helium showed signs of impairment aft his SUV clipped a truck's trailer and rolled onto its side.

Woods was traveling astatine precocious speeds connected a beachside, residential roadworthy connected Jupiter Island with a 30 mph (nearly 50 kph) velocity bounds erstwhile his Land Rover caused $5,000 successful harm to the truck, according to an incidental report. Woods agreed to a Breathalyzer trial that showed nary signs of alcohol, but refused a urine test, authorities said.

Woods has traveled extracurricular of the United States to question attraction astatine an inpatient attraction facility, according to tribunal records.

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