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IN RE JEISEAN M.* (SC 17012)
Sullivan, C. J., and Norcott, Katz, Palmer and Zarella, Js. Argued January 13--officially released July 27, 2004 Procedural History

Petition by the commissioner of children and families to terminate the parental rights of the respondents with respect to their minor child, brought to the Superior Court in the judicial district of Hartford, Juvenile Matters, where the court, Swienton, J., rendered judgment of default against the respondent father; thereafter, the matter was tried to the court, Dannehy, J., as against the respondent mother; judgment terminating the respondent mother's parental rights, from which the respondent mother appealed. Affirmed. William S. Bingham, for the appellant (respondent mother). Michael J. Besso, assistant attorney general, with whom were Eliot D. Prescott, assistant attorney general, and, on the brief, Richard Blumenthal, attorney general, and Susan T. Pearlman, assistant attorney general, for the appellee (petitioner). Elisabeth Borrino, for the minor child. Shelley A. White, Claudine Siegel and Royal Stark filed a brief for the Connecticut Legal Services, Inc., et al. as amici curiae.

Opinion

SULLIVAN, C. J. The respondent mother1 appeals from the trial court's judgment terminating her parental rights with respect to her son, Jeisean M.2 She contends that in light of this court's decision in Roth v. Weston, 259 Conn. 202, 789 A.2d 431 (2002), General Statutes

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