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Law Practice,
Family

Jun. 17, 2021

Flawed court rule, forms invite erroneous rulings in juvenile court

For the past 15 years, California journalist Garrett Therolf has filed some 40 petitions unsealing juvenile case files revealing the horrific deaths of abused children.

Susan E. Seager

Adjunct Clinical Professor
UC Irvine School of Law

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Benjamin Whittle

Associate
The Sohagi Law Group

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For the past 15 years, California journalist Garrett Therolf has filed some 40 petitions unsealing juvenile case files revealing the horrific deaths of abused children. Therolf used some of the unsealed files to expose how county child welfare agencies and police failed to save these children in his co-produced 2020 Netflix documentary, “The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez.”

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