In re R.O.

facts underlying the 2004, 2005, and 2011 petitions. The report identified the exhibits the Agency intended to submit at the contested hearing (exhibits A through U) and attached several of those exhibits (exhibits A through K), but omitted the remaining exhibits, representing it would bring them to the contested hearing. On April 20, 2021, the juvenile court relieved mother’s counsel due to a conflict; appointed new counsel; vacated the April 30 contested jurisdictional hearing date; and set the matter for further proceedings on May 4, 2021. There is no reporter’s transcript for the May 4, 2021 hearing. According to the clerk’s minutes, mother appeared without her court-appointed counsel, and another attorney specially appeared on her behalf. The clerk’s minutes also state that the juvenile court set the matter on May 25, 2021, “for Confirmation,” and on June 11, 2021, for “Contested JURIS.” The minutes also state, “Mother ordered present on 05/25/2021 and 06/11/2021.” The record is silent as to any instruction or admonition given to mother concerning the consequences of any failure to appear. Mother did not personally appear at the May 25, 2021 confirmation hearing, but her…