Pubdate: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 Source: Deseret News (UT) Copyright: 2002 Deseret News Publishing Corp. Contact: http://www.desnews.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/124 OPEN COURT MAY DETAIL A BUSH DRUG TREATMENT ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Noelle Bush's drug treatment workers may not be forced to tell police officers about whether she had cocaine in her shoe -- but nothing is stopping investigators or anyone else from learning more details in open court. Gov. Jeb Bush's only daughter must give a judge an update on her drug treatment next week. Anyone can sit in on the hearing and learn facts that a judge ruled can't be disclosed by drug treatment workers, legal experts said Wednesday. "Can a prosecutor go to the court and listen to that? Yeah, because it's an open court," said Bruce J. Winick, a law professor at the University of Miami. Circuit Judge Belvin Perry ruled Monday that four drug rehab workers aren't required to tell investigators whether Noelle Bush, 25, was found with a piece of crack cocaine in her shoe last month. In a case closely watched by drug counselors nationwide, Perry ruled that a drug treatment patient's right to privacy outweighs the interest of a criminal investigation. Prosecutors plan to appeal, but the Orlando Police Department has placed the case on inactive status in the meantime. - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Stevens