In re Nicholas P. CA1/2

BACKGROUND

This is the third appeal by Nicholas in a matter initiated in December 2018 by the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s filing of a wardship petition under Welfare and Institutions Code section 602. In the petition, the district attorney alleged that Nicholas, then 17 years old, committed felony vandalism (Pen. Code, § 594, subd. (b)(1)) and misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance (Health & Saf. Code, § 11375, subd. (b)(2).) The juvenile court dismissed the drug possession count in the petition and found that Nicholas had committed misdemeanor vandalism. It adjudged Nicholas a ward of the court with no termination date and ordered him to reside with his parents under the supervision of the probation department. Nicholas appealed from these rulings, which we affirmed on August 25, 2020, in an unpublished opinion, In re Nicholas P. I (Aug. 25, 2020, A157056.) In August 2019, the Contra Costa County District Attorney filed a supplemental wardship petition alleging that Nicholas committed assault with a deadly weapon (Pen. Code, § 245, subd. (a)(1)), assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury (id., § 245, subd. (a)(4)) and felony vandalism (id., §…