Legal Opinion
In Re Juvenile Appeal
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided June 22, 1982No. Docket 10155PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
This case questions the procedure and the evidence underlying a decision to terminate parental rights. The respondent, a putative father incarcerated outside Connecticut at the time of the termination hearing, claims on appeal that the trial court erred by denying him a continuance until his release from prison and by finding abandonment on the basis of insufficient evidence.
In its memorandum of decision the trial court found the following facts. The child at issue in this appeal, Jesse Henry GL, was bom on February 19, 1976, to Marlene C. D., who at that time had been separated for some…
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