Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits the District of Columbia's use of fabricated evidence and perjured testimony in a civil child neglect proceeding, and the appropriate remedy thereof

QUESTION PRESENTED This Court has held that the state and federal government's use of fabricated evidence and perjured testimony violates an individual's Due Process rights so as to render a criminal proceeding fundamentally . ce unfair. While a number: of states, including the : : : District of Columbia, afford substantive and et a procedural protections to parents and children in : ; : BS a civil neglect proceedings similar to those made ; . available to a criminal defendant, the breath ofthese : ; protections as required by the Constitution, where : : ; : the government uses fabricated evidence and : a. _ perjured testimony, is still unknown. : . : . The question presented is: : Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits the : : District of Columbia’s use of fabricated evidence and . : . perjured testimony in a civil child neglect : proceeding, and the appropriate remedy thereof. | u