Court Opinion

ID: 2685246
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2014-07-22 22:01:04.348651+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:14:54.000350
License: Public Domain

Filed 7/22/14 In re Dylan L. CA2/7
                  NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS
California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for
publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8,1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication
or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

              IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

                                     SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

                                                DIVISION SEVEN

In re DYLAN L.,                                                      B254061

a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court                             (Los Angeles County
Law.                                                                 Super. Ct. No. J116540)

THE PEOPLE,

         Plaintiff and Respondent,

         v.

DYLAN L.,

         Defendant and Appellant.

         APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Robert
Leventer, Juvenile Court Referee. Affirmed.
         Dylan L., in pro. per., and Kevin D. Sheehy, under appointment by the Court of
Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
         No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.

                                           ______________________
                   FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

       On December 6, 1988 the People filed a Welfare and Institutions Code section 602
petition alleging Dylan L., then 16 years old, had committed arson in violation of Penal
Code section 451, subdivision (b). After Dylan admitted the allegation in December
1989, the juvenile court sustained the petition, declared Dylan a ward of the court, and
ordered him home on probation.
       On April 10, 2013, having reached the age of 38 years, Dylan filed a petition
under Welfare and Institutions Code section 781 to seal and destroy his juvenile court
records. In his petition, Dylan admitted that he “has suffered numerous misdemeanor and
felony convictions subsequent to the instant matter,” but maintained that his post-
conviction rehabilitation efforts had been successful. In response to the petition, the
probation department filed a report indicating that Dylan had an adult criminal history of
misdemeanor convictions for forgery in 1992, fraud in 1996, and burglary in 1997.
Dylan had felony convictions and was sentenced to state prison for grand theft and
burglary in 1997, forgery in 1999 and 2000, grand theft and forgery in 2001, and robbery
or attempted robbery in 2007.
       In a court form entitled “Petition to Seal Juvenile Court Records and Court Order”
dated November 15, 2013, the juvenile court denied Dylan’s petition. The court checked
the preprinted box indicating “[a]dult criminal record has been established” as the reason
for the denial.1

                                      DISCUSSION

       We appointed counsel to represent Dylan on appeal. After reviewing the record,
counsel filed an opening brief raising no issues. On May 9, 2014 we advised Dylan that

1       In response to a request by appellate counsel, the superior court clerk advised that
there is no minute order for the hearing on the petition and no reporter’s transcript.

                                              2
he had 30 days to submit any contentions or issues he wished us to consider. On June 6,
2014 we received a typed supplemental brief in which he requested this court “to
consider post-conviction rehab [sic] as a separate and equitable ground for the expunction
of juvenile convictions . . . .”
       We have examined the record and are satisfied that Dylan’s attorney on appeal has
fully complied with the responsibilities of counsel and there are no arguable issues. (See
Smith v. Robbins (2000) 528 U.S. 259, 277-284 [120 S. Ct. 746, 145 L. Ed. 2d 756]; People
v. Kelly (2006) 40 Cal. 4th 106, 118-119; People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal. 3d 436, 441.)
Dylan is statutorily ineligible to have his juvenile court records sealed because he
suffered subsequent felony convictions and misdemeanor convictions involving moral
turpitude. (See Welf. & Inst. Code, § 781, subd. (a).)

                                     DISPOSITION

       The order is affirmed.

                                                 SEGAL. J.*

We concur:

               PERLUSS, P.J.                             ZELON, J.

*       Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, assigned by the Chief Justice pursuant to
article VI, section 6 of the California Constitution.

                                             3