  The production of the excited charmed baryon doublet $\Lambda_c^*$ via
fragmentation is studied. An analysis of the subsequent hadronic decays of the
doublet within the framework of heavy hadron chiral perturbation theory
produces expressions for both the angular distribution of the decay products
and the polarization of the final state heavy baryon in terms of various
nonperturbative fragmentation parameters. Future experimental investigation of
this system will determine these parameters. In addition, recent experimental
results are shown to fix one of the parameters in the heavy hadron chiral
Lagrangian.
