Hunter
06/25/21
A University of Iowa student who has been charged in the deaths of his parents and sister in Cedar Rapids this month wants his medical records and any statements he made to medical personnel who were treating him for a gunshot wound to his foot that day off limits to prosecutors.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports that 20-year-old Alexander Jackson’s attorneys filed a resistance to subpoenas for those records from prosecutors who made the requests last week. Assistant Linn County Attorney Monica Slaughter applied to subpoena witnesses who treated Jackson, all of his medical records and the names of any staff involved in his treatment.
Defense lawyers say there’s no provision in the law to subpoena those records because it’s privileged medical information under Iowa law. However, Slaughter has argued that because police were on scene the entire time and not asked to leave, the doctor-patient privilege is moot.
Slaughter told the Gazette this week that the family members, who were found in different rooms in the house, were shot multiple times and died from gunshot injuries. Alexander has told police that he woke to the sound of gunfire and got his foot injured during a struggle with a masked intruder. Authorities have found no signs of a struggle or forced entry to the residence.
Alexander Jackson face three charges of first degree murder in the shootings of his father Jan, mother Melissa, and sister Sabrina on June 15th.