ADOPTION OF HELEN


429 Mass. 856 (1999)

ADOPTION OF HELEN (and a consolidated case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk, Essex.

June 29, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Cohen, Committee for Public Counsel Services (Claudia Bolgen with him) for the mother.

Virginia A. Peel for Department of Social Services.

Lisa J. Campbell, for the child, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, FRIED, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.


ABRAMS, J.

The mother appeals from a judgment of the Juvenile Court dispensing with her consent to adoption of her child, from the denial of a posttrial motion for a new trial, and from the denial of a petition for a review and redetermination hearing.2 The mother also appeals from the denial of relief pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3, by a single justice of this court concerning the denial of a renewed motion for visitation.

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