Reply #2: From the Palm Beach Post:Judge blocks subpoena of Limbaugh's doctor [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Judge blocks subpoena of Limbaugh's doctor
By Susan Spencer-Wendel

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

WEST PALM BEACH — Prosecutors' investigation of conservative talk show king Rush Limbaugh for alleged prescription drug abuse has hit another legal snag.

A circuit judge has shot down a prosecution attempt to question one of Limbaugh's doctors about his patient.

Late Monday, an attorney for Limbaugh asked Circuit Judge Kenneth Stern to quash the subpoena of John Murray, Limbaugh's ear doctor.

The state attorney's office had sent a subpoena to Murray and asked him to come into the office Tuesday morning, according to court records.

Stern, acting on behalf of Circuit Judge Thomas Barkdull III, quashed the subpoena, and ordered prosecutors not to communicate with Murray or any other of Limbaugh's doctors without proper notice and a hearing beforehand.
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