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SPRINGFIELD - A Juvenile Court date of Sept. 14 has been set to hear a prosecutor's request for impounded documents relating to Jason D. Strickland, the Westfield man accused of a 2005 assault on his stepdaughter who remains hospitalized in Boston.
The date was set by Judge James J. Collins during a status conference yesterday in Hampden Superior Court. The prosecutor is seeking impounded Juvenile Court records involving Strickland's son and stepdaughter. Contents of the documents have not been made public.
Haleigh Poutre, 13, of Westfield, is in a Boston rehabilitation hospital. Strickland, 33, and his wife, Haleigh's adopted mother, Holli A. Strickland, were arrested and charged with assault after the girl was hospitalized. Holli Strickland died later that month in what West Springfield police said appeared to be a murder-suicide at the hands of her grandmother.
The judge said yesterday that The Boston Globe has filed a motion for relief from impoundment of Juvenile Court information regarding Haleigh, but does not wish to argue the request in court. Collins, who is assigned to the Juvenile Court matter and the Superior Court assault case against Strickland, said that he is trying to balance the defendant's right to a fair trial with the public's right to information. He took the motion under advisement for a later ruling..................
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