In re N.W. CA1/2
About four years after N.W. (Minor) was first detained from his mother under Welfare and Institutions Code section 300, he was placed with his maternal grandmother, Rebecca. A few months later, the court sustained a petition filed by the Mendocino County Department of Social Services (Department) under section 387 and removed Minor from Rebecca’s care. Although Rebecca and counsel for the Department had argued on more than one occasion to appoint counsel to represent Rebecca in connection with the section 387 petition, the court denied the requests. Some months after that, Rebecca, acting in pro per, filed a section 388 petition asking the court to return Minor to her care. The petition was summarily denied on the grounds that it did not state new evidence or a change of circumstances, and Rebecca appeals.
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