Fernandez

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND1

The Board2 denied appellant’s application for compensation on September 21, 2017, mailing notice of its decision to appellant by regular mail on September 25, 2017.

We take our factual and procedural history from the documents in the clerk’s

transcript. As we explain below, our review in this case is hampered to some degree by an incomplete appellate record and appellant’s opening brief. 2 The Board “is an agency within the California state government. (Gov. Code, § 13901.) The Legislature has enacted statutes governing the procedure by which crime (continued) On March 12, 2018, appellant called the Board and spoke with staff who explained that her application had been denied. Appellant filed a petition for writ of mandate in the trial court pursuant to Government Code section 13960, subdivision (a)(1), on November 15, 2018. In response to the petition, the Board filed a demurrer, contending that appellant’s petition was barred by the applicable 60-day statute of limitations in Government Code section 13960, subdivision (a)(1). Following a hearing on March 24, 2020, the trial court sustained the demurrer without leave to amend, entering…