IN RE JOSE C.

No. S158043.

45 Cal.4th 534 (2009)

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

Supreme Court of California.

January 22, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kurt David Hermansen, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Lise Jacobsen and Steve Oetting, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

WERDEGAR, J.

Welfare and Institutions Code section 602 purports to give our state courts jurisdiction to declare any juvenile who "violates any law . . . of the United States" a ward of the court. (Id., subd. (a).) However, Congress has granted federal courts "original jurisdiction, exclusive of the courts of the States, of all offenses against the laws of the United States." (18 U.S.C. § 3231.) We consider whether...

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