In re M.S. CA4/2

BACKGROUND

In July 2021, the People filed a petition under Welfare and Institutions Code

section 602, subdivision (a). As amended, the petition alleged that M.S. committed

second degree robbery (Pen. Code, § 211; unlabeled statutory citations refer to the Penal

Code) and grand theft from a person (§ 487, subd. (c)). The petition also alleged a

criminal street gang enhancement. (§ 186.22, subd. (b)(1)(C).)

M.S. admitted the grand theft count in exchange for the dismissal of the remaining

allegations. At the dispositional hearing in August 2021, M.S. was declared a ward of the

court and placed on probation.

In May 2022, the People filed a subsequent Welfare and Institutions Code section

602 petition alleging that M.S. had a concealed firearm in violation of section 25400,

subdivision (a)(1). The probation department reported that M.S. had fled from police by

vehicle and then by foot. The juvenile court detained M.S. in juvenile hall, and the

People filed an amended subsequent petition three days later alleging that M.S. had also

committed a carjacking (§ 215, subd. (a)) and two robberies (§ 211) in July 2021, and

battery with serious bodily injury (§ 243, subd. (d))…