In re O.P. CA4/2

Filed 3/4/21 In re O.P. CA4/2
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION TWO
In re O.P., a Person Coming Under the
Juvenile Court Law.
THE PEOPLE,
E074935
Plaintiff and Respondent,
(Super.Ct.No. J277069)
v.
OPINION
O.P.,
Defendant and Appellant.
APPEAL from the Superior Court of San Bernardino County. Pamela P. King,
Judge. Affirmed.
Tonja R. Torres, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and
Appellant.
No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.
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Between November 2018 and June 2020, minor O.P. admitted to three counts of
second degree vehicular burglary and four probation violations. On March 16, 2020, after
O.P.’s 18th birthday and following a contested disposition hearing, the court declined to
order terminal disposition, and instead continued him as a ward, ordered formal
probation, and required he spend 138 days in juvenile hall. Minor remained a ward of the
court until being discharged in August 2020. The court also declined to seal his record as
he failed to successfully complete probation.
O.P. appeals the court’s March 16, 2020 order. His attorney filed a brief informing
this court they were unable to identify any errors and asking us to perform an
independent review of the record. Based on our independent review of the record, we find
no error and affirm.
I
FACTS
From November 2018 to October 2019, the People filed two petitions against O.P.
under Welfare and Institutions Code section 602 (unlabeled statutory citations refer to
this code) and four petitions under section 777 for various crimes and probation
violations including criminal threats, possession of controlled substances, breaking into
cars, breaking into lockers, not adhering to curfew, and not going to school. Both of the
section 602 petitions ended with O.P. admitting to second degree vehicular burglary, O.P.
being deemed a ward of the court, and the court ordering him to serve 30 days in juvenile
hall. (Pen. Code, § 459.) The court dismissed the first Welfare and Institutions Code
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section 777 petition based on O.P.’s admission to the second 602 petition. However, the
other three section 777 petitions ended with O.P. admitting to a probation violation: twice
for failing to adhere to curfew and once for failing to attend school. For each of the
section 777 petitions save one, the court ordered O.P. to serve 30 days in juvenile hall
and then be released on probation. The only exception involved the same disposition
except the court ordered O.P. to serve only 14 days in juvenile hall instead of 30.
On January 22, 2020, the People filed a final petition under Welfare and
Institutions Code section 602, alleging O.P. took a vehicle without consent in violation of
Vehicle Code section 10851, subdivision (a). The People eventually added an allegation
that O.P. committed another second degree vehicular burglary. O.P. once again admitted
to the vehicular burglary charge and the court dismissed the other allegation. The court
held a contested disposition hearing on March 16, 2020, after O.P.’s 18th birthday, in part
because O.P. requested terminal disposition. Following the contested disposition hearing,
the court declined to order terminal disposition and instead continued O.P. as a ward of
the court and ordered he serve 138 days in juvenile hall. O.P. filed his notice of appeal
the same day.
The People filed a final section 777 petition on June 26, 2020, while this appeal
was pending, alleging among other things that O.P. failed to report to his probation
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officer.1 O.P. admitted the violation and the juvenile court ordered him to serve 30 days
in juvenile hall.
On August 7, 2020, the juvenile court found O.P. did not satisfactorily complete
his probation and was therefore ineligible to have his records sealed. It then discharged
O.P. as a ward of the court.
II
ANALYSIS
We appointed counsel to represent O.P. on appeal, and counsel has filed a brief
under the authority of People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal. 3d 436 and Anders v. California
(1967) 386 U.S. 738, setting forth a statement of the case, a summary of the facts and
potential arguable issues, and asking us to conduct an independent review of the record.
Counsel’s brief raised two potential issues for our consideration: whether the
juvenile court abused its discretion when it committed O.P. to juvenile hall as a condition
of probation under In re Ricardo M. (1975) 52 Cal. App. 3d 744, and whether it abused its
discretion in concluding O.P. did not satisfactorily complete his probation and is
1 O.P.’s notice of appeal only specifies that he is appealing from the court’s orders
on March 16, 2020. He is entitled to our independent review of the record on appeal from
this order because an appeal from the dispositional order is a first appeal of right. (In re
Kevin S. (2003) 113 Cal. App. 4th 97, 118; In re Mario C. (2004) 124 Cal. App. 4th 1303,
1307-1308; People v. Serrano (2012) 211 Cal. App. 4th 496, 500-501.) However, he
successfully moved to augment the record to include the final section 777 petition and its
disposition. He is not entitled to our independent review of these orders (see People v.
Serrano, at pp. 500-501), but because he is entitled to independent review of the
dispositional order we exercise our discretion to conduct an independent review of the
entire record.
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therefore ineligible for record sealing. We offered O.P. an opportunity to file a personal
supplemental brief, and he has not done so.
We have independently reviewed the record for potential error as required by
People v. Kelly (2006) 40 Cal. 4th 106 and find no arguable error that would result in a
disposition more favorable to O.P.
III
DISPOSITION
We affirm the judgment.
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SLOUGH
J.
We concur:
RAMIREZ
P. J.
CODRINGTON
J.
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