Holt v. Chenault’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “The record includes a transcript of an in camera interview between the trial court and the child. This was the only one of three or four such interviews to be memorialized by transcript or recording. Over the objections by counsel, the transcript was sealed. To the extent the trial court relied on the child’s statements, the parties were prejudiced by the inability to challenge or rebut the sealed testimony. We direct the trial court on remand to make the in camera testimony available to parents’ counsel.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Couch v. Couch