State v. James P.

¶ 1. This is a review of a published court of appeals decision, State v. James P., 2004 WI App 124, 274 Wis. 2d 494, 684 N.W.2d 164, affirming an order of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, Joseph R. Wall, Judge, that terminated James P's parental rights to Chezron M.

¶ 2. James P argues that grounds did not exist to terminate his parental rights to Chezron M. under Wis. Stat. § 48.415(l)(a)3. (200l-02)3 1 because he had not been adjudicated the biological father of Chezron M. prior to the alleged periods of abandonment and thus was not her "parent," as defined in Wis. Stat. § 48.02(13), when…