Opinion ID: 1188407
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Heading: custodial credits

Text: (7) Deborah urges that the trial court erred in denying her 32 days of detention credit for time spent in juvenile hall before the disposition hearing. The contention has merit. The period of confinement under the Juvenile Court Law may not exceed the maximum term of imprisonment for a person convicted of the same offenses in adult court. (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 726.) Predisposition custodial credit therefore must be given to the extent the minor's total period of confinement would otherwise exceed the statutorily defined maximum term of imprisonment for one convicted as an adult. ( In re Eric J., supra, 25 Cal.3d 522, 535-536.) Where sentences are aggregated for multiple offenses Eric J. provides that the maximum adult term is to be computed under the determinate sentencing law whether the offenses be felonies or misdemeanors. ( Id., at pp. 536-538.) At the disposition hearing the court assessed a total of eight months' confinement for the two petty thefts. Under Eric J. the maximum term of adult confinement for the same offenses would be six months (the upper term for the base offense (Pen. Code, §§ 488, 490.5, subd. (a)) plus two months (one-third of the middle term for the subordinate offense; id., § 1170.1, subd. (b); see Eric J., supra, at p. 538), or eight months, the period of confinement actually imposed. Thus we must modify the judgment to include the credit requested. The judgment is modified to credit Deborah with 32 days of detention credit for time spent in juvenile hall prior to her dispositional hearing. In all other respects, the judgment is affirmed.