In re B.G. CA1/2

BACKGROUND

B.G. first appeared before the juvenile court at the age of 14 when, on September 7, 2011, the People filed a Welfare and Institutions Code section 602, subdivision (a) petition charging him with two felonies: robbery (Pen. Code, § 211)1 and receiving stolen property (§ 496). According to the police report, B.G. and a co- responsible followed a man as he got off a bus in Oakland on September 2, 2011. B.G. kicked the man’s leg and the man fell to the ground. B.G. held his hand inside his backpack, as if he held a gun, and told the man, “give me all your money or I’ll shoot you.” The man took a perfume bottle from his pocket and handed it to B.G.’s companion. B.G. and his companion fled when a police car stopped at the scene. The companion was detained immediately but B.G. was able to dispose of his backpack before he was detained. The man identified B.G. and his companion as the assailants. At the jurisdictional hearing on September 26, 2011, the court amended count 1 to allege grand theft (§ 487, subd. (c)) instead of robbery, and B.G. admitted that count. Count 2 was dismissed. At the disposition hearing on October 11, 2011, the court adjudged B.G. a ward of the…