Opinion ID: 1359265
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Robbery of Jose Bustos

Text: Court Reporter Buelah Pugh read to the jury in this case the juvenile court testimony of Jose Bustos: On September 27, 1978, Bustos and his wife were in a park, listening to a radio. They were approached by five youths, including defendant Champion. One of the boys took the radio, and when Bustos tried to retrieve it, the other four attacked him. Champion kicked him, hit him on the head with a bottle, and cut his finger with a switchblade knife. Court Reporter Pugh testified that she had worked in juvenile court for eight years; that a minor in a juvenile proceeding is analogous to a defendant in an adult proceeding; that the referee who hears juvenile proceedings is, for all intents and purposes, a judge at that hearing; and that a finding of true is the equivalent in juvenile court of a finding of guilty in an adult court.