California Court of Appeal

The amendments to Welfare and Institutions Code section 731 requires the trial court to set a maximum term of physical confinement at the California Youth Authority based on the particular facts and circumstances of the matter that conferred jurisdiction over the minor in juvenile court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/17/2005
• Published 06/17/2005

Judges

• HULL, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John Hargreaves, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and John G. McLean, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.