B.J. v. Superior Court CA2/8

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

B.J. et al., B340343

Petitioners, Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. 23CCJP03945A v.

THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY,

Respondent;

LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES,

Real Party in Interest.

ORIGINAL PROCEEDINGS in mandate. Cristina Gutierrez Legaspi, Judge. Petition denied. Law Office of Jolene Metzger, Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, Inc., Dominika Campbell and Jason Steinberg for Petitioner B.J.

The Law Office of Emily Berger, Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, Inc. and Nicole J. Johnson for G.C. as Joinder on behalf of Petitioner. No appearance for Respondent. Dawyn R. Harrison, County Counsel, Kim Nemoy, Assistant County Counsel, and Sally Son, Sr., Deputy County Counsel, for Real Party in Interest. Children’s Law Center, Sarah Liebowitz, for Minor Ky.C.

****** B.J. (mother) and G.C. (father) are the parents of one-year- old Ky.C. Mother challenges the juvenile court’s jurisdictional findings against her. The court found mother caused the death of Ky.C.’s sibling Ka.C., who was born two years before Ky.C. and died at three or four months of age, due to traumatic injuries. Mother also challenges the court’s orders bypassing reunification services for her under Welfare and Institutions Code1 section 361.5, subdivision (b)(4) and setting a section 366.26 hearing to determine a permanent plan for Ky.C. The petition is denied. DISCUSSION Mother challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support several of the juvenile court’s findings. “ ‘ “ ‘When a finding of fact is attacked on the ground that there is not any substantial evidence to sustain it, the power of an appellate court begins and ends with the determination as to whether there is any substantial evidence[,] contradicted or uncontradicted[,] which