In re C.C. CA4/3

FACTS

Minor admitted to David Yates, a campus control assistant, that she had been using her cell phone in class. He asked her to turn over her phone. Without having been asked for anything else, minor also gave Yates paraphernalia used to prepare marijuana cigarettes. Because this raised Yates’s suspicion of marijuana use, he searched the contents of the phone. Some of the messages saved on it suggested minor possessed and possibly sold contraband drugs. Yates then informed both the school principal and the assistant principal and took minor to her guidance counselor. At Yates’s request, minor gave him her car keys and Yates turned them over to Irvine Police Officer Robinson who arrived about 20 minutes after the initial encounter. Robinson searched minor’s car. He found marijuana, a marijuana pipe, and a prescription pill. Robinson interviewed minor in the office of the assistant principal and she admitted the contents of the car belonged to her. The record fails to disclose where the car was located.

DISCUSSION

1. The Order is Appealable After minor admitted the allegations of petition, the court ordered “minor declared a non ward of the Orange County Juvenile Court under…