No. 22-1205

Brian D. Skattum v. Devan Collomy

Lower Court: Maine
Docketed: 2023-06-13
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: 14th-amendment 5th-amendment child-custody civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure divorce-proceeding due-process family-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination
Key Terms:
FifthAmendment DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2023-09-26
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Can a parent be penalized in a divorce/custody case for exercising 5th/14th Amendment rights in a related criminal case?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED a re Question I: ae ' oe Can the Maine courts penalize a father ina divorce and child custody proceeding, while he is also | a a defendant in a criminal case, for exercising his : Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to non: production of financial records and certain testimony, Le where material issues of both cases arise under the. : same set of facts? ; ; oo, Question IT: ; Did the Maine courts abuse their discretion in . failing to grant a stay of divorce proceedings when a parent in a divorce and child custody proceeding is also a defendant in a criminal case where material ~ issues of both cases arise under the same set of facts, ; and the accuser in the criminal case is the same : parent seeking the divorce? :

Docket Entries

2023-10-02
Petition DENIED.
2023-07-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/26/2023.
2023-03-15

Attorneys

Brian Skattum
Brian Skattum — Petitioner