Werts v. Arkansas Department of Human Services

Appellant Virginia Totten Werts brings this petition for review of the court of appeals’s dismissal of her appeal of an order terminating her parental rights. The court of appeals dismissed the appeal due to appellant’s failure to file a brief; thus, we will treat this petition as a motion for belated appeal. The record in this case was lodged on November 21, 2005; however, Werts’s counsel, Glen Hoggard, failed to file a brief or request an extension by the date on which the brief was due. Counsel Hoggard admits in this petition that the failure to file a brief or request an extension…