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Medical records are not sacred and to the degree that bear upon the commission of a crime they are like any other evidence.

It so happens that Prosecutor Kirchner got that search warrant based on his probe into some other corrupt drug dealer, who was apparently selling pills through Limbaugh's housoekeeper.

In other words, it's as if a cop went out and got a search warrant to check YOUR house based on something your neighbor did, but then while the cop is inside YOUR house, he decides to snoot around to see if he can find anything else that looks to be illegal.

And we haven't even taken into account that this hypothetical cop (being a Democrat) just happens to hold a grudge against you (being a Republican) and therefor would further his career if he was to make a bust.

[tcuoohjohn]

Investigations often lead to multiple suspects and multiple crimes and even unrelated crime.Apparently the nexus between the PBCSO drug investigation and Rush Limbaugh was sufficient in the eyes of the Judge to issue the warrants.

Rush, pursuant to his rights as a citizen, has filed to keep his medical records sealed. The issue at hand is do Rush limbaugh's putative privacy rights exceed the criminal probative value of the medical record? They remain sealed until such time as the issue is decided by an appellate court.