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Name: In re L.T.
Case #: B156971
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 5
Opinion Date: 10/30/2002
Subsequent History: 1/15/03: revw. denied
Summary

Arson is committed under Penal Code section 451 when a student burns trash in a school trash can. The trash did not belong to the juvenile, and the court declined an invitation to limit arson to burnings of property which have been discarded as trash by someone else.