IN RE JUVENILE APPEAL


187 Conn. 431 (1982)

IN RE JUVENILE APPEAL (DOCKET NO. 10155)

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released June 22, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Thomas Furniss, special public defender, with whom was Joseph P. Quinn, Jr., for the appellant (putative father).

Richard T. Couture, assistant attorney general, with whom, on the brief, was Carl R. Ajello, attorney general, for the appellee (commissioner of the department of children and youth services).

Donna P. Murphy, for the minor child.

SPEZIALE, C. J., PETERS, HEALEY, ARMENTANO and SHEA, JS.


PETERS, 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...

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