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Appeals court reviews care-and-protection case over parents’ requests to represent themselves and competency findings
Summary
In a care-and-protection appeal the court heard challenges about whether parents were denied the opportunity to represent themselves, whether competency evaluations were correctly applied, and whether procedural errors deprived the family of due process.
Multiple counsel and parties argued at the panel over due-process protections in care-and-protection proceedings after lower-court judges appointed counsel and repeatedly denied parents’ requests to represent themselves. Joan Altimore, representing the mother, argued that the mother’s repeated requests to replace appointed counsel, to proceed pro se, or to have the father handle her representation were denied without appropriate competency findings and without a hearing on whether she could knowingly…
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