Appeals court weighs due-process claim over exclusion of social-worker release plan Appellant argued the trial court violated due process by excluding a social-worker release-and-discharge report that would have shown community supports and could affect reoffense risk; the Commonwealth countered that the social worker was a fact witness and that jury instructions and statutory evidence limited reversible error.

Did a trial judge compromise a petitioner's due process by excluding vital evidence that could reshape perceptions of future risk?

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