In re Miguel C.

Filed 9/30/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

In re Miguel C., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law.

THE PEOPLE, D078013

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v. (Super. Ct. No. J242744)

MIGUEL C.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Richard R. Monroy, Judge. Reversed with directions. Christine M. Aros, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Objector and Appellant. Matthew Rodriquez, Acting Attorney General, Lance E. Winters and Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorneys General, Charles C. Ragland and Scott C. Taylor, Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioner and Respondent. Before committing a minor to the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), the state’s most restrictive placement for its most severe juvenile offenders, the law requires the juvenile court to find both that the placement would probably benefit the minor, and that less restrictive options would be either ineffective or inappropriate. In re Carlos J. (2018) 22 Cal.App.5th 1 (Carlos J.) reversed a DJJ placement for a minor…