In re Melody M. CA2/7

INTRODUCTION

Melody M. appeals from the juvenile court’s jurisdiction findings and disposition order adjudging her a ward of the court under Welfare and Institutions Code section 6021 and placing her on probation. Melody challenges a warrantless search condition the court imposed as a term of her probation. Because that condition had a relationship to Melody’s offense of making a criminal threat against her sister and was reasonably related to future criminality, we affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A. Melody Threatens Her Sister In April 2021 16-year-old Melody and her older sister, Marlene, were living with their grandmother, whom they called “mom.” Also living in the house with Melody and Marlene were their two cousins, ages one and five. On April 14, 2021, after the grandmother told Marlene to ask Melody “if she was going to come back home,” Marlene sent Melody a text message: “Mom said weren’t you gonna come

Undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

2 back.” According to Marlene, Melody was “out in the streets” and “hadn’t been home” in some time. Three days later Melody responded by text message: “Tell that bitch I said…