California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Marin Cnty. Health & Human Servs. v. A.S. (In re M.D.), A140948 (Cal. App. 2015):
demand an opportunity to ask questions of the minor when she so clearly could have sought that exact opportunity from the juvenile court. (People v. Steppe (2013) 213 Cal.App.4th 1116, 1119, fn. 2 ["defendant failed to cross-examine the analyst below about these potential inaccuracies, thereby waiving the matter"].) This is precisely the kind of delay juvenile dependency proceedings should be without.
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