Opinion
NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN OFFICIAL REPORTS
Sonoma County Super. Ct. No. 34205J
Siggins, J.
E.S. appeals from a dispositional order of the juvenile court. Her court appointed counsel has filed a brief seeking our independent review of the record pursuant to People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436 to determine whether there are any arguable issues on appeal. We find there are none and affirm.
BACKGROUND
Angela C. testified that on December 7, 2006, she was at Maxwell Park in Sonoma when a green Mercedes drove by. Angela recognized the two girls in the car as E.S. and her sister Vanessa because about a month earlier Angela’s friends were in a “physical confrontation” with at least Vanessa.
The green Mercedes pulled up in a driveway and E.S. and Vanessa got out. E.S. ran toward Angela, grabbed her by the hair and started punching her in the face, telling her to learn “to stay out of other people’s business.” After she punched Angela about 10 times she tackled the girl to the ground, sat on her and continued to punch her in the head, face and chest. Vanessa approached, told E.S. to “fuck up [Angela’s] pretty little face,” and began kicking Angela in the head. E.S. got up and also started kicking Angela in the torso and face.
The assault ended when a bystander approached and yelled at the girls. Vanessa and E.S. ran away. Angela was treated at the hospital for injuries to her face and hands and released after an hour with instructions to use ice packs. She took only Tylenol and did not require further medical treatment.
Angela testified that as the girls started to run away, E.S. returned and snatched her purse from her arm. Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Brett Fairbanks, who took Angela’s statement at the hospital, testified that Angela said she was not sure which of the girls actually took her purse or whether it was on her person or next to her when it was snatched. In his incident report, Deputy Fairbanks wrote that Angela said the purse was more than an arm’s length away from her body. She thought the purse was thrown from her when E.S. tackled her.
An amended Welfare and Institutions Code section 602 petition alleged misdemeanor battery (count I), grand theft from a person (count II), and assault by means of force likely to cause great bodily injury (count III). At the conclusion of a contested jurisdictional hearing the court found true the battery and assault allegations, found the battery was a lesser included offense and therefore merged with the assault charge, and returned a not-true finding on the grand theft charge. E.S. was declared a ward of the court and placed on probation in her mother’s custody subject to various probation conditions. The court ordered victim restitution for the loss of Angela’s purse in an amount to be determined. This appeal timely followed.
DISCUSSION
Defense counsel represents that she advised her client of her right to submit supplemental written argument on her own behalf and to request that counsel be relieved and another attorney appointed. The minor has not done so. This court has reviewed the entire record on appeal. There are no legal issues that require further briefing.
DISPOSITION
The judgment is affirmed.
We concur: McGuiness, P.J., Pollak, J.