People v. B.H. CA2/3

INTRODUCTION

Minor B.H. appeals from juvenile court jurisdictional findings and a dispositional order sustaining a petition filed under Welfare and Institutions Code section 602.1 B.H.’s appellate counsel filed a brief under People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436 (Wende) asking us to independently review the record. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

On November 15, 2022, a petition was filed under section 6022 alleging that B.H. committed a lewd act upon a child under age 14. (Pen. Code, § 288, subd. (a).) The petition alleged that B.H. was 13 when the incident occurred. At the March 7, 2023, adjudication hearing, the court accepted into evidence two video recordings of police officers’ interviews with B.H., the transcripts of those interviews, and a Gladys R.3 questionnaire. B.H. later moved to exclude the statements and the Gladys R. questionnaire on the basis that the

All further undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

Section 602, subdivision (a) provides that “any minor who is between 12 years of age and 17 years of age, inclusive, when he or she violates any law of this state . . . is within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which…