in the Interest of L.M.I. and J.A.I., Minor Children

Justice HECHT,

joined by Justice JEFFERSON,

dissenting.

“[T]his case,” laments the Court, “has taken its excruciatingly slow course through our judicial system.”1 Lamentably, a little more than a third of the excruciation has been in this Court. And just whose fault is that? Whose fault is it that this Court has taken 524 days to decide this case? Why, the parties’, of course, says the Court. Who else could be to blame? Not us. We’ve tried our very best, but “appellate review has been greatly hampered by the shifting, indistinct fo*731cus of their complaints”.2 Well, well. The facts here are a bit…