Supreme Court of Illinois

In a matter of termination of parental rights, judgement is affirmed where the child has severe developmental deficits due to maternal drug use and will require services which the mother, because of her incarceration, cannot provide.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/19/2005
• Published 05/19/2005

Judges

• Justice KARMEIER * delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Donna L. Ryder, Chicago, for appellant., Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Springfield, Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, Nancy Kisicki, Nancy Faulls, Assistant States's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People., Patrick T. Murphy, Charles P. Golbert, Christopher Williams, Office of the Cook County Public Guardian, Chicago, for the minor., Michael A. Pollard, Steven Dixon, Angela C. Vigil, of Baker & McKenzie, L.L.P., Chicago (Thomas R. Gerety, Kirsten D. Levingston, New York, New York, of counsel), for amici curiae Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers et al.