Finding initial conditions with capacitor and inductor substitutions

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This is the circuit at t(0-); Initial conditions need to be determined:

Capacitor is replaced by an open circuit and inductor is replaced with a short circuit:

These are the initial conditions I get:

I through inductor (0-) = 3 A

V across capacitor ( 0-) = 0 ( in parallel w/ SC)

Am I missing something? This is not making any sense to me.
 
Sorry this is the circuit:
 
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  • Hand-drawn circuit schematic: a 12 V voltage source with a 4 ohm resistor in series, feeding a node with a capacitor labelled v_C(0-) with polarity marked + and -, and an inductor labelled i_L(0-) in parallel.
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