The idea is to click on the commandLink which opens a modal panel.  Then the user can click on the "Reopen" button on the modal panel and be redirected to the interview.

Here is the facelet - dccchecklist.xhtml (I have simplified it to better explain the problem):

<ui:composition xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
      xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
      xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
      xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
      xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich"
      xmlns:custom="http://doc/jsf/custom"
      template="pagetemplate.xhtml">
    <ui:define name="content">
        <h:form id="dccchecklistform">
            <rich:panel id="dccchecklistprocpanel" style="width: 100%; height: 500px;">
                    <rich:dataTable headerClass="dr-table-header" width="96%" id="taskList" value="#{IntakeOffenderBean.DCCTasks}" var="dccChkTaskBean">
                        <rich:column id="taskName" width="170px">
                               <f:facet name="header"><h:outputText value="Task Description" styleClass="stdLabelLight"/></f:facet>
                               <a4j:commandLink limitToList="true" oncomplete="javascript:Richfaces.showModalPanel('genericmp',{width:500, height: 260, top:200});" styleClass="linkText" value="#{dccChkTaskBean.task.task.description}"/>
                           </rich:column>
                    </rich:dataTable>
            </rich:panel>
        </h:form>
        <rich:modalPanel id="genericmp" minHeight="240" minWidth="450" zindex="2000">
        <a4j:log popup="false"/>
            <f:facet name="header">
                <a4j:outputPanel id="mpheader">
                    <h:outputText value="Reopen Interview"/>
                </a4j:outputPanel>
            </f:facet>
            <table width="100%" align="center">
                <tr>
                    <td colspan="2" align="center">
                        <h:outputText value="Inteview is already completed. Press Reopen if you to want to reopen the interview and make further changes or press Cancel to leave the interview closed." styleClass="stdLabel"/>
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td align="center" colspan="2">
                        <a4j:commandButton styleClass="stdButton" status="majorstatus" id="reopenButton" value="Reopen" limitToList="true"
                            action="reopen"/>
                    </td>
                </tr>
            </table>
        </rich:modalPanel>
    </ui:define>
</ui:composition>

Here is the output form a4j:log (after you click the "Reopen" button):

Thanks for your response.  After adding the form, I am getting more information in the log but the action is still not redirecting to the new page.  Here is the new log information:

You are absolutely correct, it was something obvious.  A mistyped the name of the facelet in to-view-id.  But I am so happy to now have a working example of how to redirect to a new page from a modal panel.  Thanks for all your help!