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Panel denies department request to add witness in Flanagan hearing
Summary
A State of Connecticut Department of Public Health hearing panel denied without prejudice a late request to reopen the department's case to call an additional witness, after the respondent's counsel objected that the notice was unfair.
A three-member panel overseeing a State of Connecticut Department of Public Health hearing about Dennis Flanagan, D.D.S., denied without prejudice a department motion to reopen its case so it could call an additional witness, the panel said during a remote proceeding.
The panel's decision followed objections from respondent counsel Mary Alice Moore Lenhart, who said the late notice of the department's planned witness deprived the defense of fair preparation. "This hearing has is lacking in a certain degree of fairness ... It's trial by ambush," Moore Lenhart said, arguing the…
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