Miller v. Gordon

Order unanimously affirmed, without costs. Memorandum: The issue on this appeal is whether an indigent respondent in paternity proceedings is entitled, as a matter of constitutional right, to have Allegany County provide him with counsel at public expense. It is from an order of the Family Court of Allegany .County denying such request that respondent appeals. Pointing to the potentially serious effects which an adverse determination in those proceedings could have on him, respondent argues that the constitutional requirements of both due process and equal protection dictate the need for…