Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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of a patient’s counseling sessions outweighs that patient’s privacy interests.” Id., at 1357. Balancing those conflicting interests, the court observed, on the one hand, that the evidentiary need for the contents of the confidential conversations was diminished in this case because there were numerous eyewitnesses to the shooting, and, on the other hand, that Officer Redmond’s privacy interests were substantial. Id., at 1358. Based on this assessment, the court concluded that the trial court had erred by refusing to afford protection to the confidential communications between Redmond and Beyer. The United States Courts of Appeals do not uniformly agree that the federal courts should recognize a psychotherapist privilege under Rule 501. Compare In re Doe, 964 F. 2d 1325 (CA2 1992) ; In re Zuniga, 714 F. 2d 632 (CA6) (same),
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. recognizing privilege
B. recognizing a federal mediation privilege
C. holding that production of documents without a claim of privilege waives the right to later claim that privilege
D. recognizing commonlaw privilege against selfincrimination
E. recognizing privilege under federal rules
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.