January 2, 2009
Melinda Duckett, the mother of missing 2-year-old Trenton Duckett, holds a picture of her and her son following a news conference at the Leesburg Police Department on Aug. 29. Melinda Duckett, 21, was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Friday, Sept. 8, 2006.
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STEPHEN M. DOWELL, ORLANDO SENTINEL / August 29, 2006
OCALA - Lawyers for CNN and the network's host Nancy Grace want a federal judge to order a Lake County mental-health facility to turn over its treatment records of Melinda Duckett, who was mother of missing toddler Trenton Duckett and who committed suicide..
In documents filed New Year's Eve, the lawyers contend Duckett's mental-health history is relevant to her family's wrongful-death lawsuit, which accuses Grace and her show of "intentionally inflicting emotional distress" on the 21-year-old mother.
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Officials for LifeStream Behavioral Center in Leesburg, which treated Duckett, told the cable network's lawyers last month that they would not honor a deposition subpoena but would follow a judge's order.
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Duckett shot herself in her grandparents' home in The Villages on the day that Grace planned to air a taped interview with Duckett. Duckett reported her son missing from his bed in her apartment on Aug. 27, 2006.
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