In re R.R. CA1/5

BACKGROUND

In April 2013, a Welfare and Institutions Code section 602, subdivision (a)1 petition was filed charging appellant, then 14 years old, with one count of murder (Pen. Code, § 187), one count of attempted carjacking (id., §§ 215, 664), two counts of carjacking (id., § 215), one count of robbery (id., § 211), and one count of evading an officer (Veh. Code, § 2800.2). As to all counts except the evading an officer count, an enhancement was alleged that appellant was one of the principals in the charged offense, one of whom was armed with a firearm (Pen. Code, § 12022, subd. (a)(1)). The People concurrently filed a petition for a fitness hearing and requested a finding that appellant was unfit for juvenile court treatment (§ 707). The charges were based on a two-day crime spree during which appellant and friends carjacked, shot, and/or robbed four separate victims.2 Appellant admitted to police officers that he was present during the crimes and that he entered at least one of the carjacked cars. In August 2014, appellant entered an admission to the murder charge, after admitting in open court he knew, before embarking on the charged crime spree, that one of his companions…