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IN RE AVEN S.

Docket No. A050778.

1 Cal.App.4th 69 (1991)

1 Cal. Rptr.2d 655

In re AVEN S., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. AVEN S., Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Five.

November 22, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Deborah Tuttelman, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, John H. Sugiyama, Assistant Attorney General, Ronald E. Niver and Don Jacobson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

LOW, P.J.

In this case we consider and reject a minor's claim that the voluntariness of his confession should have been evaluated under a fundamentally different standard of proof than is applicable to adult criminal defendants. We hold that in juvenile cases, as in prosecutions of adults, the People need only prove voluntariness by a preponderance of the evidence.

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