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Citations

  • 679 A.2d 470
  • 1996 D.C. App. LEXIS 121

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  • upholding trial judge’s decision not to interview the child in camera, where the judge instructed the parties that they were “perfectly free” to call the child as a witness if they wished
  • upholding trial judge's decision not to interview the child in camera, where the judge instructed the parties that they were \perfectly free\ to call the child as a witness if they wished
  • contrasting \the judge's undoubted statutory duty to consider the evidence in the record relating to the child's opinion with a purported (and far more controversial) obligation to investigate the case on the judge's own initiative\

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Judges: King, Schwelb, Terry

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