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IN RE ALIJAH K.

Docket: Cum-15-319.

147 A.3d 1159 (2016)

2016 ME 137

IN RE ALIJAH K.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: August 30, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lauren Wille, Esq. (orally), DeGrinney Law Offices, Portland, for appellant father.

Janet T. Mills , Attorney General, and Meghan Szylvian , Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for appellee Department of Health and Human Services

E. James Burke, Esq. , and Isabel Mullin , Stud. Atty., Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic's Prisoner Assistance Clinic, Portland, for amicus curiae Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic's Prisoner Assistance Clinic

Zachary Heiden, Esq. , American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation, Portland, Jamesa J. Drake, Esq. , Drake Law LLC, Auburn, and Danylle Carson, Esq. , Boothby Perry, LLC, Turner, for amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, MEAD, GORMAN, JABAR, and HUMPHREY, JJ.

[¶ 1] The father of Alijah K. appeals from a judgment of the District Court (Portland, Powers, J.) terminating his parental rights to the child pursuant to 22 M.R.S. § 4055 (2015).1 The father argues that the court impermissibly relied on the fact of his incarceration to find that he is unfit...

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