D.B. v. Waukesha County Human Services Department

D.B. appeals from an order terminating her rights to her child, J.A.B. D.B. argues that the trial court: (1) improperly directed the verdict on four questions of the special verdict; (2) failed to use the entire pattern jury instruction; (3) misled the jury by submitting to it the entire seven-question special verdict with four questions already answered by the court; and (4) improperly introduced the guardian ad litem to the jury as the attorney appointed to represent J.A.B.'s "best interests." Finally, she contends that the jury's affirmative response to question five of the special verdict…