People v. D.F. CA1/4

BACKGROUND

D.F.’s first sustained juvenile petition was on August 5, 2016, shortly after his fifteenth birthday. He was declared a ward of the court and placed on home supervision. Within four months, he had admitted two violations of the conditions of his probation, one for misdemeanor battery and another for removing his ankle monitor and leaving home. In 2017, new supplemental petitions and probation violations were sustained based on incidents involving shoplifting, assault, and violating his curfew. After an additional probation violation in 2018, D.F. was placed out of his mother’s home at the Boys Republic facility on October 30, 2018. In early May 2019, a few weeks before his 18th birthday, D.F. was involved in multiple incidents relating to his placement at Boys Republic, including verbal and physical altercations with peers and staff, as well as damaging a Boys Republic rented car. Boys Republic staff requested emergency removal of D.F. from the facility, and the probation department filed a notice of violation alleging that D.F. had violated the conditions of his probation. D.F. admitted a probation violation on May 20, 2019; he was released to his mother’s custody,…