In re V.C. CA2/3

INTRODUCTION

The juvenile court declared V.C. a ward of the court after it found he committed second-degree robbery when he forcibly took money from his seventh-grade classmate. In pronouncing V.C.’s conditions of probation, the court ordered V.C. not to discuss any facts of the robbery with the victim, but allowed V.C. to otherwise communicate with the victim. However, the conditions of probation set forth in the court’s minute order from the disposition hearing prohibit V.C. from communicating at all with the victim. On appeal, V.C. contends the court’s dispositional minute order should be amended to reflect the trial court’s oral pronouncement of his probation conditions. We agree.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In December 2014, V.C. was detained in connection with a robbery at his middle school. V.C. and his group of friends approached the victim and demanded that he give them his money. When the victim refused, V.C. grabbed him by the shoulders and pushed him against the wall. One of V.C.’s friends then reached into the victim’s back pocket and removed the money. After V.C. was detained, the District Attorney’s Office filed a Welfare and Institutions Code section 602…