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IN RE V.V.

Nos. S177654, S179579.

51 Cal.4th 1020 (2011)

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

Supreme Court of California.

June 6, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laini Millar Melnick , under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant V.V.

Nancy L. Tetreault , under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Holly Jackson , under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant J.H.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , and Kamala D. Harris , Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka , Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters , Susan D. Martynec , Paul M. Roadarmel, Jr. , and Robert M. Snider , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

CHIN, J.—

In this case, V.V. and J.H., minors, set off a firecracker on a brush-covered hillside in Pasadena, causing a fire that burned five acres of forest land. At a combined adjudicatory hearing, the juvenile court determined that V.V. and J.H. had committed arson. The court found that, although they did not intend to set the hillside on fire, the evidence satisfied the mental state required for arson.

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