By: Derek Hawkins//January 22, 2018//
WI Court of Appeals – District I
Case Name: State of Wisconsin v. A.S.,
Case No.: 2017AP1349
Officials: BRENNAN, J
Focus: Termination of Parental Rights
A.S. appeals orders terminating his parental rights to K. and denying his post-disposition motion. On appeal, he renews his argument that he is entitled to a new dispositional hearing because the trial court erred when it denied his trial counsel’s request for a continuance and proceeded to hold the dispositional hearing even though A.S. had failed to appear. A.S. argues that we review the denial de novo, that good cause existed to grant a continuance as his counsel requested, and that holding the hearing without A.S. violated his constitutional and statutory rights. We affirm.