No. 20-7196

Kristy Renee Rasnick v. Dickenson County Department of Social Services

Lower Court: Virginia
Docketed: 2021-02-23
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protection counsel counsel-representation due-process parental-rights state-court state-court-appeal statutory-interpretation
Latest Conference: 2021-04-23
Question Presented (from Petition)

1) Whether Petitioner was deprived her constitutional right affording her due process when the Virginia Supreme Court and the Virginia Court of Appeals by upholding the Dickenson County Circu it Court's decision which deprived Petitioner of her due process when the Circuit Court denied Appellant's appeal for not being timely and therefor e denied Appellant the protections of counsel afforded her under Va. Code § 16.2-266(D)(2), the Virginia Constitution and the United States Constitution to have a prepared attorney to represent her before the state terminated her parental rights.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Petitioner was deprived her constitutional right affording her due process

Docket Entries

2021-04-26
Petition DENIED.
2021-04-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/23/2021.
2021-03-25
Brief of respondent Dickenson County Department of Social Services in opposition filed.
2020-12-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 25, 2021)

Attorneys

Dickenson County Department of Social Services
Jason Daniel GallagherStreet Law Firm. LLP, Respondent
Kristy Rasnick
Nicholas Brian ComptonChafin Law Firm, P.C., Petitioner