Alexee Trevizos bodycam confession about dumping newborn baby in hospital trash tossed by court
The bodycam confession of the New Mexico teen who tossed her newborn baby into the trash at a hospital cannot be used by prosecutors in her murder case due to doctor-patient confidentiality, a court ruled Thursday.The justices of the New Mexico Supreme Court voted unanimously to exclude at trial any statements the then 19-year-old Alexee Trevizo made in front of police while at the hospital in 2023, determining the remarks are protected under doctor-patient confidentiality, People reported. “I’m sorry, it came out of me.
I didn’t know what to do,” Trevizo can be heard saying in the footage. “I was scared,” she added, before telling nurses that “it was not crying or nothing.”The state’s highest court also upheld the Fifth Judicial District Court’s decision that any surveillance footage and police body camera video of Trevizo at the hospital is also protected by doctor-patient confidentiality and therefore not admissible in court, the outlet reported. Prosecutors previously argued that any conversations between Trevizo, her mother and medical staff that happened in front of police in her hospital room should be allowed at trial.Police had not yet read Trevizo her Miranda rights prior to those conversations — but prosecutors tried to argue that the teen had made the comments in front of police, not directly to an officer and therefore she did not need to be Mirandized.The high school cheerleader was also receiving medical treatment when the cops entered her hospital room wearing bodycams. “Despite her unresolved medical crisis, Dr.[Heather] Vaskas, without authorization, ambushed Defendant, bringing with her two armed officers who stood in the doorway of her hospital room, and disclosed her personal medical information to all persons in the room without warning,” the court stated in an opinion written by Justice Michael E.
Vigil.The opinion added that because Trevizo was “not given the opportunity to exclude anyone from the room before...