California Court of Appeal

Juvenile court's dismissal of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services' (DCFS) Welfare and Institutions Code section 300 petition, seeking to have a nine-month old removed from his parents, is affirmed where: 1) the juvenile court did not abuse its discretion in excluding a witness as an expert on shaken baby syndrome; and 2) the juvenile court did not abuse its discretion under section 350(c); and 3) the juvenile court did not abuse its discretion in determining that the DCFS failed to meet its burden of proof.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/09/2012
• Published 10/09/2012

Judges

• Zelon

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel