IN RE RANDY SCOTT B.


511 A.2d 450 (1986)

In re RANDY SCOTT B.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided July 7, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lowery & Platt, Peter B. Dublin, (orally), Portland, for plaintiff.

James E. Tierney, Atty. Gen., Jonathan R. Chapman, (orally), James Eastman Smith, Asst. Attys. Gen., Augusta, for defendant.

Linnell, Choate & Webber, Robert E. Mullen, (orally), Auburn, guardian ad litem.

Before McKUSICK, C.J., and NICHOLS, ROBERTS, VIOLETTE, WATHEN and SCOLNIK, JJ.


McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

By order of the District Court (Lewiston), the parental rights of Robert B. to his thirteen-year-old son, Randy Scott B., were terminated pursuant to 22 M.R.S.A. § 4055(1)(B)(2) (Supp.1985). The father now appeals that order, contending 1) that the District Court violated his federal and state constitutional right to due process by conducting the termination proceedings in his absence, and 2) that there was insufficient evidence of a...

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