In re J.B.

I. INTRODUCTION

Minor J.B. challenges the juvenile court’s order committing him to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) 1 on the most recently sustained juvenile wardship petition, where minor admitted committing second degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a)), an offense enumerated under Welfare and Institutions Code section 707, subdivision (b) (707(b)). 2 In order to commit minor to DJJ without violating section 733, subdivision (c) (section 733(c)), which

1 The DJJ is also known as the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities (DJF). (In re N.C. (2019) 39 Cal.App.5th 81, 85, fn. 3.) DJJ and DJF are used interchangeably in case law. (Ibid.) 2 All further statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code unless otherwise indicated. prohibits a DJJ commitment if “the most recent offense alleged in any petition and admitted or found to be true by the court is not described in subdivision (b) of Section 707 or subdivision (c) of Section 290.008 of the Penal Code,” the juvenile court dismissed two adjudicated petitions involving more recent non-707(b)…