In Re Adam D.

The People filed a petition in the juvenile court seeking to have Adam D. (Adam) declared a ward of the court under Welfare and Institutions Code section 602. Adam pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft (Pen. Code, § 487, subd. (c)) and to misdemeanor resisting a peace officer (Pen. Code, § 148) and was declared a person described in section 602. At the disposition hearing the court reviewed the probation officer’s social study which outlined the bases of the section 602 petition and recommended that Adam be placed on probation under the supervision of the probation officer pursuant to section 725, subdivision (a). Adam’s counsel generally agreed with the section 725, subdivision (a) recommendation but argued that the matter should be treated as a referral to a program of supervision under section 654.2, subdivision (a) because at the end of a satisfactory section 654.2, subdivision (a) supervision period the petition must be dismissed. Adam’s counsel then requested that the section 725, subdivision (a) disposition be converted to a section 654.2, subdivision (a) at the end of the six-month probation period. The court placed Adam on probation under section 725, subdivision…