DENVER (AP) In a setback for Kobe Bryant, a judge ruled Friday that notes made by a victim's advocate who sat in on a police interview with the woman Bryant is accused of raping cannot be given to defense attorneys.

State District Judge Terry Ruckriegle wrote that state law provides such strong privacy protection for communications between victims and victim advocates that he cannot even review the notes in private to determine whether they are relevant to the case.

Bryant, 25, has said he had consensual sex with the 19-year-old woman. The Los Angeles Lakers star faces four years to life in prison or 20 years to life on probation if convicted of felony sexual assault.

He is scheduled to appear in Eagle for a hearing Monday and Tuesday before Ruckriegle for arguments on his attorneys' request to throw out evidence including statements Bryant made during an interview with investigators. The defense is also seeking the woman's medical history.

The victim's advocate, whose name has not been released, sat in during a police interview of the woman on July 1, the day after the alleged attack at a resort near Vail.

The advocate made some notes later, and Ruckriegle has said the defense was particularly interested in a single sentence.

While the notes may not have stemmed from direct communication between the alleged victim and the advocate, they still were made as part of the advocate's work with the woman, the judge said.