People v. Stephanie L.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that incarceration during the nine-month period does not excuse the failure to make reasonable progress
• holding that “time spent in prison does not toll the nine-month period”
• concluding the trial court’s best-interest findings were not against the manifest weight of the evidence
• holding time spent incarcerated is included in the nine-month period during which reasonable progress must be made
• noting, “where the legislature has employed a term in one place and excluded it in another, it should not be implied where excluded”
• noting, “where the legislature has employed a term in one place and excluded it in another, it should not be implied where excluded”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).