Thompson v. Lauderdale County Department of Pensions & Security

I must respectfully dissent from the majority’s decision to quash as improvidently granted the writ of certiorari issued in this case.

In this parental-rights-termination case, the mother was ordered by the trial court to submit to a psychological examination by Dr. Joseph P. Sides. Then, at the dispo-sitional hearing of this case, Dr. Sides’s report was admitted into evidence as an attachment to a report filed by the social worker. The social worker was present at the hearing and was cross-examined by the mother’s counsel; however, Dr. Sides was not present and was not cross-examined. The…