In Re the Detention of R.W.

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• holding that the \great weight\ instruction was an improper comment on the evidence
• issue of admissibility of transcript testimony was moot because it involved private question, would not likely recur, and was a matter of discretion
• in civil commitment proceeding, the likeliness that issue will recur justified court reaching moot issue
• a court makes an impermissible comment on the evidence when it instructs the jury as to the weight it should give certain evidence
• issue of admissibility of transcript testimony was moot because it involved private question, would not likely recur, and was a matter of discretion
• judge instructed jury that “ ‘great weight’ ” should be given to evidence regarding a defendant’s “ ‘prior history of decompensation leading to repeated hospitalizations or law enforcement interventions’ ” (emphasis omitted)

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