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PEOPLE v. CHACON

No. F038393.

1 Cal.Rptr.3d 223 (2003)

109 Cal.App.4th 1537

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Matthew CHACON, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

Review Granted October 1, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rachel Lederman, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Francisco, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey Firestone, Louis M. Vasquez and Kathleen A. McKenna, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

GOMES, J.

The issue on appeal is whether a court has discretion to order a juvenile disposition after a jury finds a 17-year-old minor with no known prior criminal history guilty of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury (assault by means) on a "discretionary direct file" for which Proposition 21 authorizes, but does not mandate, a criminal trial instead of a juvenile...

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