In re S.T. CA1/4

I. BACKGROUND

Minor was originally declared a ward of the court after a petition was filed pursuant to section 602 in September 2010, when he was 15 years old, alleging he had defaced property with graffiti (Pen. Code, § 594, subd. (a)), associated with a criminal street gang (Pen. Code, § 186.22), and possessed a billy club (Pen. Code, former § 12020, subd. (a)(1), now Pen. Code, § 22210). Minor admitted the allegations of the petition. Four additional petitions were filed over the next 13 months; the sustained allegations of

1 All undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

1 those petitions included stealing a case of beer (Pen. Code, § 484, subd. (a)), grand theft (Pen. Code, § 487, subd. (c)), and escaping from probation camp (§ 871, subd. (a)). Minor was placed on probation in the home of his parents in November 2010. It appears that in April 2011, after admitting the grand theft count, being reinstated on home probation, and violating his probation by testing positive for cocaine, Minor was placed in probation camp.2 At the beginning of the time pertinent to the issues in this appeal, Minor was in juvenile hall after escaping from…