PEOPLE v. SUPERIOR COURT (CARL W.)

Docket No. S.F. 23272.

15 Cal.3d 271 (1975)

539 P.2d 807

124 Cal. Rptr. 47

THE PEOPLE, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Respondent; CARL W., a Minor, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

September 19, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Edward P. O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Granucci and Harriet Wiss Hirsch, Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioner.

Joseph P. Busch, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Harry B. Sondheim and Jay J. Becker, Deputy District Attorneys, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Sheldon Portman, Public Defender, Leonard P. Edwards, Frank D. Berry, Jr., and Philip H. Pennypacker, Deputy Public Defenders, for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

SULLIVAN, J.

On December 17, 1974, a petition was filed in the juvenile court alleging that real party in interest Carl W. comes within the provisions of section 602 of the Welfare and Institutions Code and should be adjudged a ward of the court. The petition went on to charge in four paragraphs that the minor had violated Penal Code sections 187 (murder) and 288 (lewd or lascivious...

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