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IN RE WYLER

No. 11-FM-452.

46 A.3d 396 (2012)

In re David WYLER. District of Columbia, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 21, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Holly M. Johnson , Assistant Attorney General, with whom Irvin B. Nathan , Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Todd S. Kim , Solicitor General, and Donna M. Murasky , Deputy Solicitor General, were on the brief, for appellant.

Mikel-Meredith Weidman , Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Samia Fam , Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WASHINGTON, Chief Judge, and GLICKMAN and FISHER, Associate Judges.

FISHER, Associate Judge:

This appeal, which is technically moot, raises a complex and important procedural issue relating to the hospitalization of the mentally ill. When the government proffered a social worker from the Washington Hospital Center as an expert witness, the court precluded her testimony without conducting voir dire. The government proffered very little information, legal or factual, and the record does not permit us to determine whether she...

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