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In re Joel S.

California Court of Appeals, Fifth District
Jul 14, 2008
No. F054777 (Cal. Ct. App. Jul. 14, 2008)

Opinion

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Tulare County No. JJD061965, Hugo J. Loza, Temporary Judge. Pursuant to Cal. Const., art. VI, § 21.

Catherine Campbell, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

THE COURT

Before Vartabedian, Acting P.J., Levy, J., and Cornell, J.

On November 28, 2006, appellant, Joel S., helped William Trimble steal two trucks. Kern County Sheriff deputies arrested Joel after seeing him driving one of the stolen trucks. Joel did not have a valid license.

On July 30, 2007, Joel admitted two counts of vehicle theft (Veh. Code, § 10851, subd. (a)), and one count each of receiving stolen property (Pen. Code, § 496, subd. (a)), and driving without a license (Veh. Code, § 12500, subd. (a)).

On August 27, 2007, the court granted Joel deferred entry of judgment and placed him on probation for 12 months.

On September 9, 2007, William Masters received a call informing him that someone was taking property from his parents ranch. Masters and his brother-in-law, Roger Ward, went to the property and saw Joel and another male trying to secure a trailer loaded with old metal items from the ranch. When Masters and Ward confronted them, Joel and the male began apologizing and throwing things off the trailer. After unloading the trailer, Joel and the other male left.

On October 11, 2007, the district attorney filed a petition charging Joel with theft (Pen. Code § 484, subd. (a)).

On October 30, 2007, the district attorney amended the charge to attempted theft.

On January 22, 2008, following a hearing, the court sustained the attempted theft offense against Joel. It then continued him on deferred entry of judgment.

Joel’s appellate counsel has filed a brief which summarizes the facts, with citations to the record, raises no issues, and asks this court to independently review the record. (People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436.) Joel has not responded to this court’s invitation to submit additional briefing.

Following independent review of the record, we find that no reasonably arguable factual or legal issues exist.

The judgment is affirmed.


Summaries of

In re Joel S.

California Court of Appeals, Fifth District
Jul 14, 2008
No. F054777 (Cal. Ct. App. Jul. 14, 2008)
Case details for

In re Joel S.

Case Details

Full title:In re JOEL S., a Person Coming Under The Juvenile Court Law. THE PEOPLE…

Court:California Court of Appeals, Fifth District

Date published: Jul 14, 2008

Citations

No. F054777 (Cal. Ct. App. Jul. 14, 2008)