In re Brooklyn O.

Syllabus

The respondent father appealed to this court from the judgment of the trial court denying his motion to revoke the commitment of his minor child to the custody of the petitioner, the Commissioner of Children and Families. The minor child had previously been adjudicated neglected and had been committed to the custody of the petitioner. The father claimed that the trial court improperly found that he failed to prove that commitment of the minor child was no longer warranted. Held that the trial court properly denied the respondent father's motion to revoke commitment, the father having failed to claim that the trial court's decision was not legally and logically correct, and, in fact, the father's brief was devoid of any legal analysis; moreover, although the father asked this court to adopt an alternative view of the evidence presented to the trial court that was favorable to him, that is not the role of this court, the trial court considered the evidence, including seventeen exhibits that were admitted into evidence and the testimony of several witnesses, and, on the basis of that evidence, determined that the father failed to meet his burden of proving that the cause for commitment of the minor child no longer existed, and this court, on the record before it, could not conclude otherwise. Argued February 28—officially released March 19, 2020