In re A.V.-R. CA6

I. BACKGROUND

The Santa Clara County District Attorney petitioned the juvenile court to make A.V.-R. a ward of the court, alleging that A.V.-R. had violated Penal Code section 245, subdivision (a)(1), assault with a deadly weapon. After a contested jurisdictional hearing, the juvenile court sustained the petition. At the January 2024 disposition hearing, the juvenile court denied A.V.-R.’s request to be released on community-based supervision and instead ordered A.V.-R. to be placed at the Ranch for six to eight months. Ordering that A.V.-R. pay victim restitution in an amount later to be determined, the court also imposed a $110 restitution fine. A.V.-R. timely appealed. A.V.-R. completed her Ranch commitment and aftercare program before her counsel filed her opening brief, and probation was dismissed later in January 2025.2

II. DISCUSSION

A. The Ranch Commitment In her opening brief, A.V.-R. argued that “substantial evidence d[id] not support the [juvenile] court’s finding that public safety required A.V.-R. be confined at the Ranch for six to eight months.” In her reply brief, however, she agrees that her completion of the Ranch commitment made her argument moot.…