Civil Practice — Juvenile – Psychiatric Treatment – Continued Admission – Confrontation Right

In re C.W.F. (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-06-0097, 1 p.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from Moore County District Court (Don W. Creed Jr., J.) On discretionary review from the Court of Appeals. N.C. S. Ct.

Holding: Where our Court of Appeals vacated and remanded the trial court’s order that concurred with the voluntary admission of the juvenile and authorized a continued admission for inpatient psychiatric treatment for 90 days, reasoning that, when the trial court admitted and relied on the report of a non-testifying witness in its decision to continue the juvenile’s stay at a psychiatric treatment center, the court violated the juvenile’s right to cross-examine witnesses, as set out in G.S. § 122C-224.3(c), discretionary review was improvidently allowed.