Supreme Court of California

The trial court's discretionary authority to commit a minor to the Youth Authority, under Penal Code section 1170.19(a), applies only when the minor meets the eligibility requirements of Welfare and Institutions Code section 1732.6.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/18/2005
• Published 04/18/2005

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Athena Shudde, under appointment by the Supreme Court, San Diego, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, State Solicitor General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Lloyd G. Carter, Jeffrey D. Firestone, Louis M. Vasquez, Michelle L. West-Scott, Janet E. Neeley and Kathleen A. McKenna, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.