Opinion No. (2003)

BILL LOCKYER Attorney General SUSAN DUNCAN LEE Deputy Attorney General THE HONORABLE NORMAN L. VROMAN, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, COUNTY OF MENDOCINO, has requested an opinion on the following question: May a superior court adopt local rules prohibiting law enforcement officers from (1) interrogating a minor in a juvenile detention facility, including before the filing of a juvenile petition, without the permission of the minor's attorney, (2) temporarily removing a minor from a juvenile detention facility for investigative purposes without the permission of the minor's parent, attorney, probation officer, and a juvenile court judge, and (3) placing a minor in a lineup without the permission of a juvenile court judge? CONCLUSION A superior court may not adopt local rules prohibiting law enforcement officers from (1) interrogating a minor in a juvenile detention facility, including before the filing of a juvenile petition, without the permission of the minor's attorney, (2) temporarily removing a minor from a juvenile detention facility for investigative purposes without the permission of the minor's parent, attorney, probation officer, and a juvenile court judge, or (3) placing a minor in…