State ex rel. Dyess v. Pellam

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Cabinet for Human Resources, Department for Social Services investigative form containing a non-witness social worker’s determination that an allegation was “substantiated” was inadmissible under KRE 803(8)
• holding that Cabinet for Human Resources, Department for Social Services investigative form containing a non-witness social worker’s determination that an allegation was “substantiated” was inadmissible under KRE 803(8)
• the Kentucky Supreme Court noting that there is no legal basis for “curative” hearsay
• “For the purpose of ruling on [a motion for a directed verdict], the trial court must assume that the evidence for the Commonwealth is true, but reserving to the jury questions as to the credibility and weight to be given to such testimony.”
• “The testimony concerning 20 Kentucky Rules of Appellate Procedure. -55- information contained in the DSS-150 form did nothing more than put before the jury an unidentified social worker’s written belief that appellant’s father was guilty of abusing D.W.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).