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The mother of a glamorous Little Rock news anchor who was brutally murdered has been told today she can proceed with a lawsuit against the hospital that treated her daughter where three employees illegally looked at her files. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center where her daughter Anne Pressly spent the last five days of her life in , after she was fatally attacked interrupting a burglary in her own home.

Less than a week since emotional testimony began, a jury found Curtis Vance guilty in the rape and beating death of popular Little Rock, Ark., anchorwoman Anne Pressly today.

Cannady was told she can pursue a claim for outrageous behaviour against the three staff members and St. Vincent, but that her invasion of privacy claim must be dropped because the court ruled Pressly was dead when her records were rifled through and privacy rights do not exist after a patients death. This picture of news anchor Anne Pressly is from and today the mother of the murdererd Little Rock television start was told she can proceed with a lawsuit claiming outrageous behavior by a hospital and three workers who illegally looked at her daughter's medical files.

In addition the justices ruled today that Cannady can sue the hospital for outrageous behavior, because that claim is made on her behalf, not Pressly's. But they upheld a lower court's ruling that Pressly's family cannot seek punitive damages for invasion of the slain woman's privacy. Vincent nor the circuit court has cited any authority for the proposition that two separate claims cannot be based on the same conduct.

Patricia Cannady, mother of slain Little Rock television anchor Anne Pressly, scored a significant legal victory today. But neither the hospital nor the lower court cited any legal basis to show that two separate claims can't be based on the same conduct, Gunter wrote. Justice Paul Danielson agreed with the rest of the court's conclusion, but he wrote that the lower court's order didn't find whether Cannady's claim met the requirements for outrage.

For the first time since the savage beating and subsequent death of Anne Pressly, her mother recounted how she discovered the unconscious TV news anchor struggling to breathe in her .

Cannady found year-old Pressly unconscious from a severe beating at her home on the morning of Oct. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center, where she clung onto her life for five days before dying Oct. Jay Holland left was one of the employees who looked at Pressly's records after Curtis Vance right murdered her after breaking into her home.

Curtis Vance, who police say was in Pressly's neighborhood to rob homes, was convicted of capital murder in her death and sentenced to life in prison. Jay Holland, a family physician who did not treat Pressly, was accused of looking at Pressly's electronic file from home.