Jurisdiction and Venue

Name: M.E. v. Superior Court (2023) 88 Cal.App.5th 1199
Case #: B323404
District 2 DCA
Division: 6
Opinion Date: 03/06/2023
  • Categories: Deferred Entry of Jmt. (DEJ), Delinquency (602), Jurisdiction and Venue

Because the juvenile court lacked jurisdiction over a 26-year-old person, he could not be placed on deferred entry of judgment (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 790) in the juvenile court for an offense committed as a minor. In 2022, a…

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Name: People v. Pineda
Case #: B267885
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 5
Opinion Date: 08/14/2017
  • Categories: Delinquency (602), Jurisdiction and Venue, Legislation, Retroactivity/Abatement

A juvenile offender who was directly charged in adult criminal court, but whose case is not yet final, is entitled to the benefit of Proposition 57's elimination of direct filing authority. In 2014, when he was 17 years old, Pineda…

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Name: In re I.S.
Case #: A147004
District 1 DCA
Division: 1
Opinion Date: 12/08/2016
  • Categories: Delinquency (602), Jurisdiction and Venue, Prop 47, Sentencing

A juvenile court that accepts transfer of an entire delinquency case from another county has the power to rule on a Proposition 47 petition to recall the disposition made by the transferor county. I.S. pleaded no contest to felony theft…

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Name: Steven R. v. Superior Court
Case #: C077757
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 3 DCA
Opinion Date: 10/26/2015
  • Categories: Delinquency (602), Jurisdiction and Venue

Juvenile court lacked jurisdiction to dismiss Welfare and Institutions Code section 602 petition following the transfer of the case from another county for disposition. In San Francisco County Juvenile Court, Steven R. admitted a concealed weapon violation. The case was…

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Name: In re Keith C.
Case #: A141529
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 1 DCA
Division: 4
Opinion Date: 04/24/2015
  • Categories: Delinquency (602), Jurisdiction and Venue, Restitution

Where juvenile court orders a minor to pay restitution, the court has authority to enter an abstract of judgment restating the restitution order upon termination of the wardship after the ward turns 21. In February 2006, Keith admitted an allegation…

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Name: In re V.C.
Case #: C071156
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 3 DCA
Opinion Date: 07/02/2013
  • Categories: Delinquency (602), Jurisdiction and Venue

Under Welfare and Institutions Code section 603.5, subdivision (a), jurisdiction is determined at the time the initial petition is filed in juvenile court. A petition was filed in juvenile court alleging violations of Vehicle Code sections 12500, subdivision (a), a…

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Name: In re Q.N.
Case #: C064967
District 3 DCA
Opinion Date: 12/07/2012
  • Categories: Appealable Orders, Appeals, Delinquency (602), IEP (Individual Education Plan), Jurisdiction and Venue, Post Disposition

Juvenile court lacked authority to issue order requiring county office of education to fund a minor's residential placement since the office was not joined as a party under Welfare and Institutions Code section 727. Minor was adjudged a ward of…

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Name: Timothy J. v. Superior Court
Case #: C052781
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 3 DCA
Opinion Date: 05/10/2007
  • Categories: Delinquency (602), Jurisdiction and Venue, Jurisdictional Hearing

The juvenile court applied the wrong standard when it denied the minors' requests for a determination of incompetency because there was no evidence of mental disorder or developmental disability. The two minors were ages 11 and 12 when they were…

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Name: People v. Superior Court (Marcelina M.)
Case #: F047953
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 5 DCA
Opinion Date: 10/19/2005
  • Categories: Delinquency (602), Fitness Hearing, Jurisdiction and Venue

A minor’s plea in criminal court does not require an automatic transfer of any subsequent juvenile petition to criminal court. The minor was charged in adult court with various offenses falling under Welfare and Institutions Code section 707(b), as well…

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Name: In re Kenneth S.
Case #: B178488
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 2
Opinion Date: 09/21/2005
  • Categories: Appealable Orders, Appeals, Delinquency (602), Interrogations & Confessions, Jurisdiction and Venue, Miranda v. Arizona

A juvenile questioned alone in a room at the police station was not in custody for the purposes of Miranda v. Arizona (1966) 384 U.S. 436 where his foster parent voluntarily brought him to the police station. Before the disposition…

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