In re A.C. CA1/3

FACTS

I. Background

In 2006, when the minor was 10 years old, he and his younger siblings were taken from their mother‟s custody and placed in foster care after a finding that their mother was unable to care for them due to her drug addiction. Three years later, in 2009, the district

1 attorney filed a Welfare and Institutions Code1 section 602 petition after the 13-year-old minor was arrested for robbery and theft of a car for a “joy ride.” The minor admitted to committing two offenses of possessing stolen property as an accessory, as misdemeanors (Pen. Code, §§ 32, 496). The juvenile court declared the minor a ward of the court and placed him in his grandmother‟s home under the formal supervision of the probation department. On February 24, 2010, the district attorney filed a new section 602 petition, alleging the minor had committed the felony offenses of burglary (Pen. Code, § 459), auto burglary (Pen. Code, § 459), and receipt, withholding, and concealing stolen property (Pen. Code, § 496). To resolve the petition, the minor admitted to being an accessory to burglary, as a felony (Pen. Code, §§ 32, 459). The minor was continued as a ward and released on GPS…