State ex rel. A.R. & C.P. v. C.R.

On Certiorari to the Utah Court of Appeals

STEWART, Justice:

111 This case is before us on a writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals. C.R., the petitioner, challenges a Court of Appeals’ decision affirming a juvenile court ruling awarding custody of petitioner’s minor son, C.P., to C.P.’s natural father, based on a finding that petitioner had neglected C.P.

¶ 2 Police officers found two of petitioner’s children unattended outside their home on a winter evening and then discovered drug paraphernalia and sexual paraphernalia during warrantless searches of the petitioner’s house. Petitioner…