IN RE BILLY W.

No. 100, September Term, 2004.

875 A.2d 734 (2005)

387 Md. 405

In re BILLY W., Jessica W., Mary S. & George B.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 13, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geraldine K. Sweeney, Assistant Public Defender (Nancy S. Forster, Public Defender, on brief), Darcy Rood Massof, Assigned Public Defender, Baltimore, for appellants.

C. J. Messerschmidt, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore), on brief, Francine Krumholz (Emily Rody and Seri Wilpone of the Legal Aid Bureau Inc. of Towson), on brief for appellees.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA and GREENE, JJ.


BATTAGLIA, J. as to Part I.

In this action between the biological parents and the State, we have been asked to consider whether the trial court properly admitted hearsay testimony by a social worker and two Court Appointed Special Advocates1 during a hearing to review the permanency plans for children who had been declared in need of assistance. Because we have held that application of the Maryland Rules of Evidence is not mandatory in...

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