In re Annessa J.

Syllabus

The respondent parents filed separate appeals to this court from the judg- ment of the trial court terminating their parental rights with respect to their minor child, A, and denying their motions for posttermination visitation with A. Held: 1. The respondent mother could not prevail on her unpreserved claims that the trial court violated her state and federal constitutional rights during the termination proceedings. a. The respondent mother could not prevail on her claims that that the trial court violated her rights under article fifth, § 1, and article first, § 10, of the Connecticut constitution by conducting the proceedings to terminate her parental rights over the Microsoft Teams platform, a collaborative computer meeting program, and her right to due process of law by denying her motion for permission to allow her expert witness to review certain information and conduct an independent evaluation, her claims being unpreserved and evidentiary, not of constitutional magnitude: she failed to establish that there exists a fundamental right under our state constitution to an in person, in court termination of parental rights trial; moreover, the court did not deny her the use of an expert but merely denied her late motion for release of confidential records and for permission to conduct an independent evaluation on the eve of trial; accordingly, the claims were not reviewable under the second prong of State v. Golding (213 Conn. 233). b. The respondent mother could not prevail on her unpreserved claim that the trial court violated her right to due process of law under the fourteenth amendment to the United States constitution by precluding her from confronting witnesses in person by conducting the termination of parental rights proceedings over the Microsoft Teams platform; although the mother requested an in person, in court trial, she did not argue on appeal that she had an absolute right to an in person, in court trial where she could physically confront witness