California Court of Appeal

Juvenile court's determination that the juvenile-defendant be a ward of the court and placed on probation after concluding that he was in possession of a switchblade knife is affirmed as Penal Code section 653k is violated any time a person carries a switchblade knife on his or her person, regardless of where the possession occurs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/08/2009
• Published 12/08/2009

Judges

• MARGULIES, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Atty. Gen., Dane R. Gillette, Chief Asst. Atty. Gen., Gerald A. Engler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Martin S. Kaye and Michael E. Banister, Deputy Attys. Gen., for Plaintiff and Respondent., Rita Leone Swenor, San Francisco, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.