California Court of Appeal

In an appeal arising after a juvenile court declared 16-year-old defendant a ward and sentenced him pursuant to a true finding as to an allegation that defendant committed the federal crime of bringing aliens into the United States, and therefore that he fell within the court's jurisdiction under Welfare and Institutions Code section 602, the judgment is affirmed over a claim that the state court had no jurisdiction over him because the sole basis of the juvenile petition was a federal crime.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/01/2007
• Published 10/01/2007

Judges

• HALLER, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Law Office of Kurt David Hermansen and Kurt David Hermansen, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, San Diego, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette and Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorneys General, Lise Jacobson and Steve Oetting, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.