According to the Smoking Gun website, Duke lacrosse player Reade Seligmann’s lawyer has filed a motion requesting medical, criminal and mental health records of his accuser:
The lawyer for one of the Duke University lacrosse players accused of raping an exotic dancer wants prosecutors to provide him with the alleged victim’s medical records since “the complaining witness has suffered from mental and emotional problems for a portion of her life.” Additionally, J. Kirk Osborn, who represents 20-year-old Reade Seligmann, surmises that there is a “good chance” that the accuser “may have been committed, at least once, to a hospital or drug treatment program.” As such, Osborn wants material documenting the woman’s supposed “drug abuse history,” according to a discovery motion filed this afternoon in Durham’s Superior Court. The motion, a copy of which you’ll find below, also seeks the 27-year-old dancer’s criminal history, probation, and education records. The material sought, Osborn argues, provides “rich sources of information for impeaching the complaining witness.”
Given what we already know about the accuser’s past, it looks like she’s going to get put through the wringer…