STATE EX REL. D.L.R.

No. 2008-CJ-1541.

998 So.2d 681 (2008)

STATE of Louisiana in the Interest of D.L.R.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 12, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Caldwell, Attorney General, Nicholas Pizzolatto, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for applicant.

Edward Kelly Bauman, David Jefferson Williams, Lake Charles, for respondent.


CALOGERO, Chief Justice.

We granted writs in this termination of paternal rights proceeding to consider whether the court of appeal properly reversed a district court judgment terminating the parental rights of T.D.J.,1 mother of D.L.R., a child who was previously adjudicated a child in need of care after being diagnosed with "shaken baby syndrome."2 Although the court of appeal decision is based on its review...

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