Sufficiency of Evidence – Child Placement

By: Derek Hawkins//December 7, 2016//

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WI Court of Appeals – District I

Case Name: Milwaukee County v. M.G.-H

Case No.: 2016AP596

Officials: Brennan, J.

Focus: Sufficiency of Evidence – Child Placement

M.G.-H. challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the trial court’s order, following a Watts review hearing, to continue his protective placement under WIS. STAT. ch. 55 (2013-14).3 M.G.-H. argues that the record does not contain evidence sufficient to support the trial court’s conclusion that M.G.-H. “has a primary need for residential care and custody” and to prove that M.G.-H. “is so totally incapable of providing for his or her own care or custody as to create a substantial risk of serious harm to himself or herself or others.” See WIS. STAT. §§ 55.08(1)(a) and (c). This court concludes that there is sufficient evidence in the record to support the circuit court’s order for continued protective placement, and the order is affirmed.

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