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ADOPTION OF SHERRY

435 Mass. 331 (2001)

ADOPTION OF SHERRY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

November 13, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Kilkelly for the father.

John E. Bowman, Jr., Assistant Attorney General (Robert L. Quinan, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with him) for Department of Social Services.

David A.F. Lewis for the child.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Alexander G. Gray, Jr., for Chief Justice of the Juvenile Court Department & another.

Alene Ross Levy, Mercy Lowe, & Elsa Itz, of Texas, for Justice for Children.

Andrew L. Cohen & R. Susan Dillard, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Committee for Public Counsel Services.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

IRELAND, J.

At the age of three years, Sherry1 was adjudicated in need of care and protection, and a District Court judge dispensed with the need for Sherry's parents' consent to her adoption. Her father appealed,2 claiming that the judge erred in (1) refusing to admit in evidence a certain expert's opinion; (2) accepting the unsworn, written statement of the foster...

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