By: Derek Hawkins//August 10, 2016//
WI Court of Appeals – District I
Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. A.L.
Case No.: 2015AP858; 2015AP859; 2015AP860; 2015AP861
Officials: CURLEY, P.J.
Focus: Termination of Parental Rights
1. L. appeals from orders terminating her parental rights to four of her children—S. R. L. (“Sean”), S. M. L. (“Sarah”), S. R. L. (“Simone”), and S. C. L. (“Stacy”)—as well as the order denying her motion for postdisposition relief. 2 A. L. first argues that her no contest pleas during the grounds phase of the termination of parental rights (TPR) proceedings were not knowing, voluntary, and intelligent and that the postdisposition court erred when it denied her request to withdraw her pleas. She next argues that she was denied her statutory right to TPR counsel when she testified at J. S.’s trial without her attorney being present. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.