By: Derek Hawkins//December 6, 2017//
WI Court of Appeals – District I
Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. D.C.
Case No.: 2016AP2229; 2016AP2230
Officials: KLOPPENBURG, J
Focus: Termination of Parental Rights
D.C. seeks reversal of the orders terminating her parental rights to A.RC. and D.RC., and the post-dispositional order denying D.C.’s motion to vacate based on the ground of ineffective assistance of counsel. D.C.’s sole argument on appeal is that her trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to object to the circuit court’s proposed jury instructions and to request alternative jury instructions during the grounds phase of the termination of parental rights proceeding. As explained below, D.C. fails to show that the alleged deficient performance as to the jury instructions prejudiced her defense. Therefore, I affirm.