In re L.C. CA1/2

BACKGROUND

In four different wardship petitions filed between February 2024 and March 2025, L.C. was alleged to have committed crimes arising out of four different incidents that occurred between January and August 2024. Three of the petitions were resolved by negotiated dispositions, and one—the third petition involving criminal threats that is the subject of this appeal—was decided after a jurisdictional hearing.

I. The First, Second, and Fourth Petitions2

In the first petition, L.C. was alleged to have brought a weapon on school grounds on January 5, 2024 (§ 626.10, subd. (a)(1)), specifically, a knife that was “nine-and-one half inches in overall length and had a five-inch fixed blade.” In the fourth petition, L.C. was alleged to have committed on February 1, 2024, felony vandalism/damage or destruction of property of $400 or more (§ 594, subd. (b)(1)) and felony taking of a vehicle without the owner’s consent (Veh. Code, § 10851, subd. (a)). The second petition alleged L.C. entered a “Granny Unit of a residence or inhabited portion of a residence” in Fort Bragg on August 8, 2024, with the intent to commit larceny and then “willfully and/or unlawfully” took a “rifle

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