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IN RE J.A.P.

No. 98-FS-1727.

749 A.2d 715 (2000)

In re J.A.P. D.P., Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 31, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig Goldblatt, with whom James R. Marsh, P.J. Mode, Christopher J. Herrling, and Jennifer E. Grishkin, Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellant.

Mary T. Connelly, Assistant Corporation Counsel, with whom Robert R. Rigsby, Corporation Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for the District of Columbia.

Karen A. Howze, Washington, DC, filed a statement in lieu of brief for the adoption petitioners.

Before STEADMAN, FARRELL, and GLICKMAN, Associate Judges.

FARRELL, Associate Judge:

A motions division of the court granted an application for allowance of this interlocutory appeal by the birth mother in a contested adoption proceeding. The appeal, brought under D.C.Code § 11-721(d) (1995),1 challenges the Superior Court judge's order refusing to appoint counsel and provide expert witness services for the indigent mother at public expense, and presents chiefly the issue of whether principles...

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