ADOPTION OF GEORGIA


433 Mass. 62 (2000)

ADOPTION OF GEORGIA & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Franklin-Hampshire.

December 14, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia Quintilian for the mother.

Katherine M. Potter (Richard A. Salcedo with her) for Department of Social Services.

Mary A. Samberg for the children.

Jinanne S.J. Elder & Janet McGowan, for National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present (Sitting at Brockton): MARSHALL, C.J., ABRAMS, GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, & SOSMAN, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

Mary (a pseudonym), the mother of Georgia and Jane, appeals from a decision of the Franklin-Hampshire Division of the Juvenile Court Department entered in a combined proceeding that adjudicated Georgia and Jane in need of care and protection and dispensed with the need for Mary's consent to their adoption.2 Represented by new counsel on appeal, Mary (1) argues that the judge prejudged the case before all the evidence was submitted...

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