California Court of Appeal

The misdemeanor escape mandates of Welfare & Institutions Code section 871, as presently written, do not apply to a juvenile committed to a county juvenile facility who escapes from a site to which he has been taken for a working "field trip."

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/30/2002
• Published 05/31/2002

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Nancy L. Tetreault, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Rhonda L. Cartwright-Ladendorf, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.