In re C.C. CA1/5

CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal
DecidedOctober 30, 2015
DocketA143161
StatusUnpublished

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Filed 10/30/15 In re C.C. CA1/5

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION FIVE

In re C.C., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law.

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, A143161 v. (Solano County C.C., Super. Ct. No. J41079) Defendant and Appellant.

C.C. appeals from a dispositional order in this proceeding under Welfare and Institutions Code section 602. She contends (1) the juvenile court erred by including prior noncustodial offenses in her maximum term of confinement; (2) the court imposed an unauthorized disposition when it failed to calculate custody credits and apply excess credits to restitution fines; (3) probation conditions requiring her to “maintain acceptable grades, behavior and attendance” and “[a]bstain from the use of alcohol/drugs (including marijuana)” are vague and overbroad; and (4) some of the juvenile court’s findings and orders, and the clerk’s disposition reports, should be amended to correct clerical errors. We conclude that the probation conditions should be modified as set forth herein. As so modified, the dispositional order shall be affirmed.

1 I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY A. First Wardship Petition An original wardship petition (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 602) filed on September 9, 2011, alleged that appellant, then 14 years old, committed misdemeanor battery on school property in violation of Penal Code section 243.2, subdivision (a). After the petition was amended to add a second count for misdemeanor battery in violation of Penal Code section 242, appellant admitted that count and the first count was dismissed. At a dispositional hearing on October 18, 2011, the juvenile court placed appellant on six months’ informal probation without wardship (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 725, subd. (a)) on specified terms and conditions, including, as part of condition number 1, that she “maintain acceptable grades, behavior and attendance” (condition 1) and, as part of condition number 11, that she “[a]bstain from the use of alcohol/drugs (including marijuana)” (condition 11). The record does not show an objection to these probation conditions. The court specified a maximum term of confinement of six months and calculated custody credits at 41 days. The wardship petition was amended on March 5, 2012, to add allegations that appellant committed petty theft (Pen. Code, § 484, subd. (a)) and battery (Pen. Code, § 242). On April 16, 2012, appellant admitted the battery allegation, and the petty theft allegation was dismissed. At a dispositional hearing on May 29, 2012, appellant was adjudged a ward of the court and placed in her mother’s custody on formal home probation, on terms and conditions including condition 1 and condition 11. The court specified a maximum term of confinement of eight months and calculated the custody credits to be 41 days. On August 22, 2012, it was alleged that appellant violated her probation by failing to abide by court orders, failing to abide by her mother’s directives, failing to attend school, and failing to abide by a no-contact order. (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 777.) On September 14, 2012, appellant admitted violating her probation by violating her curfew, in exchange for a dismissal of the remaining allegations. On September 18, 2012, the court released appellant to her mother’s care and reinstated formal home probation on

2 terms and conditions including conditions 1 and 11. The court specified a maximum term of confinement of eight months and calculated custody credits at 60 days.

B. Second Wardship Petition A second wardship petition, filed on November 15, 2012, alleged that appellant committed misdemeanor second degree commercial burglary (Pen. Code, § 459). Appellant admitted the allegation. The court continued her as a ward, removed her from the custody of her mother, and committed her to the custody and care of the probation department for out-of-home placement. The court then stayed this placement order and returned appellant to home probation. The court specified a maximum term of confinement of one year four months, with custody credits of 84 days. On April 30, 2013, appellant admitted violating probation by failing to abide by a court-ordered curfew. The court continued wardship and reinstated appellant on home probation in her mother’s custody. On September 16, 2013, appellant admitted violating probation by failing to attend school. The court removed her from the custody of her mother, committed her to juvenile hall pending placement at New Foundations, specified a maximum term of confinement of one year four months, and calculated custody credits of 154 days. On August 19, 2014, appellant, then 17 years old, admitted violating her probation by failing to attend school. The matter was continued to September 3, and then to September 9, 2014, for disposition. At a contested dispositional hearing on September 9, 2014, the court committed appellant to juvenile hall pending placement at New Foundations, specified a maximum term of confinement of one year four months, and awarded custody credits of 308 days. The court also imposed probation conditions including conditions 1 and 11: requiring her to “maintain acceptable grades, behavior and attendance” and to “[a]bstain from the use of alcohol/drugs (including marijuana).” Appellant was placed at New Foundations on September 17, 2014.

3 On September 30, 2014, appellant filed a notice of appeal from the “September 9, 2014 Contested Disposition Hearing.”

C. Post-Appeal Orders After appellant filed her appeal, further proceedings in the juvenile court resulted in an order reducing the maximum term of confinement. In November 2014, appellant filed a petition to reclassify her burglary violation (Pen. Code, § 459) as a shoplifting violation (Pen. Code, § 459.5) and recalculate her maximum term of confinement accordingly, pursuant to the passage of Proposition 47.1 (See Pen. Code, § 1170.18.) Appellant also argued for her immediate release on the ground that her custody credits exceeded the recalculated maximum term of confinement. The People opposed the petition, arguing essentially that Proposition 47 does not apply to juveniles. After hearings on November 24 and December 3, 2014, the court granted appellant’s petition and found that appellant’s “maximum term of confinement under the 459 misdemeanor is six months.” The court indicated that placement in New Foundations would be terminated and appellant would be returned to her mother, but issued a general placement order placing appellant in the custody of the probation department for later placement in a group or foster home. The court further specified that all previous orders not in conflict with the present order would remain in effect.

1 As enacted by Proposition 47, effective November 5, 2014, subdivision (b) of Penal Code section 459.5 provides: “Any act of shoplifting as defined in [Penal Code section 459.5,] subdivision (a) shall be charged as shoplifting. No person who is charged with shoplifting may also be charged with burglary or theft of the same property.” As further enacted by Proposition 47, Penal Code section 1170.18 permits the reclassification of specified felony drug and theft convictions to misdemeanors, with a corresponding resentencing of the defendant, if the defendant would have been guilty of the misdemeanor rather than the felony at the time of the offense.

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