People v. Lackey

Alvis Ray and Edna Dean Lackey, parents of David Michael Lackey, the minor in this cause, appeal from a judgment entered in a juvenile proceeding in the circuit court of Fayette County in which the parents were declared unfit, all parental rights terminated and the guardianship administrator of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services appointed guardian of the minor with the power to consent to his adoption. The parents contend on appeal that they were denied effective assistance of counsel for two reasons: (1) in the proceeding adjudicating the custody of their child their…