In re Wyler

FISHER, Associate Judge:

This appeal, which is technically moot, raises a complex and important procedural issue relating to the hospitalization of the mentally ill. When the government proffered a social worker from the Washington Hospital Center as an expert witness, the court precluded her testimony without conducting voir dire. The government proffered very little information, legal or factual, and the record does not permit us to determine whether she was qualified to testify as an expert on mental illness and dangerousness. Lacking a sufficient record on which to rule, we exercise our…