McKinney v. Jennings

Miller, Judge.

Randy McKinney was incarcerated in a South Carolina prison when another man filed a petition and sought a hearing in a Georgia court to adopt McKinney’s natural son. McKinney requested that the Georgia court make arrangements to have him transported to the hearing or to participate by telephone, which request the court denied. The question on appeal is whether due process requires that a court make arrangements to have a party, who is incarcerated in another state, transported to an adoption hearing or present telephonically. We answer this question in the negative and thus…