S.S. v. Wakefield

QUINN, Chief Justice.

In this original proceeding we are asked to determine whether a judge of the Denver Juvenile Court should be disqualified from presiding over a dependency and neglect proceeding on the basis of bias or prejudice after initiating an ex parte communication with the respondent mother, S.S., for the purpose of informing her that her court-appointed attorney might not be providing her with effective representation. We issued a rule to show cause and now discharge the rule.

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S.S.was named as a respondent in a dependency proceeding filed after her child allegedly suffered a…