In re Marcus E.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Although [at the termination hearing] the court was required to make its unfitness and best interest determinations by a higher standard of proof than its findings in earlier stages of the proceedings, including the jeopardy stage, the same judge presided over nearly the entirety of these child protective proceedings and was entitled to consider the evidence presented throughout.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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