Opinion
09-14-2021
IN RE ANNESSA J.
Albert J. Oneto IV, assigned counsel, in support of the petition. Evan O'Roark, assistant attorney general, in opposition.
Albert J. Oneto IV, assigned counsel, in support of the petition.
Evan O'Roark, assistant attorney general, in opposition.
The petition of the respondent mother for certification to appeal from the Appellate Court, 206 Conn. App. 572, ––– A.3d –––– (2021), is granted, limited to the following issues:
"1. Did the Appellate Court, in affirming the judgment of the trial court terminating the parental rights of the respondent mother following a trial conducted via the Microsoft Teams platform over the respondent mother's objection, incorrectly determine that the respondent mother's unpreserved claim that article first, § 10, and article fifth, § 1, of the Connecticut constitution guaranteed her the right to an in-person courtroom trial of the kind that existed at common law in 1818 was not of constitutional magnitude under the second prong of State v. Golding , 213 Conn. 233, 567 A.2d 823 (1989) ?
"2. Did the Appellate Court, in affirming the trial court's judgment, incorrectly determine, under the first prong of Golding, that the record was inadequate to review the respondent mother's unpreserved claim that she was denied the right to physically confront the witnesses against her at the virtual trial on the petition to terminate her parental rights, in violation of the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment to the United States constitution?"