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Appeals court weighs due-process claim over exclusion of social-worker release plan
Summary
Appellant argued the trial court violated due process by excluding a social-worker release-and-discharge report that would have shown community supports and could affect reoffense risk; the Commonwealth countered that the social worker was a fact witness and that jury instructions and statutory evidence limited reversible error.
The Appeals Court panel considered whether a trial judge deprived a petitioner of due process by excluding a social-worker "release and discharge" plan from jury consideration in a civil commitment/violent-dangerousness matter. Attorney Caffrey, representing the petitioner, said the report detailed housing, mental-health and primary-care resources and would have…
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