DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICE v.KELLY E.,
Filed 4/7/06
CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT
(Sacramento)
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| In re S.C., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. | |
| SACRAMENTO COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Plaintiff and Respondent, Defendant and Appellant. |
C046784
(Super. Ct. No. JD220095)
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APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sacramento County, Peter Mering, J. Affirmed.
Julie Lynn Wolff for Defendant and Appellant.
Robert A. Ryan, Jr., County Counsel and Nanci A. Porter, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
This is an appeal run amok. Not only does the appeal lack merit, the opening brief is a textbook example of what an appellate brief should not be.
In 76,235 words, rambling and ranting over the opening brief's 202 pages, appellant's counsel has managed to violate rules of court; ignore standards of review; misrepresent the record; base arguments on matters not in the record on appeal; fail to support arguments with any meaningful analysis and citation to authority; raise an issue that is not cognizable in an appeal by her client; unjustly challenge the integrity of the opposing party; make a contemptuous attack on the trial judge; and present claims of error in other ways that are contrary to common sense notions of effective appellate advocacy--for example, gratuitously and wrongly insulting her client's daughter (the minor in this case) by, among other things, stating the girl's developmental disabilities make her â€
