Court Opinion

ID: 9719243
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 07:46:28.833708+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:05.427965
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HUPP, J.,*
Concurring and Dissenting. — I concur in the affirmance of the orders sustaining the petition, and in the reversal of the order committing the minor to the California Youth Authority, but dissent from the direction that the further disposition hearing be conducted in a manner “consistent with this opinion.” Briefly, the order committing the minor to the Youth Authority cannot be sustained because the referee used “punishment” as a criteria in determining that the minor should be sent to the Youth Authority. As is thoroughly demonstrated by the majority opinion, present law does not allow punishment to be used as a basis for a juvenile court disposition. Since it is clear that the referee used incorrect *884criteria, the commitment must be reversed and a new disposition hearing held.
For the rest, I dissent. The majority opinion, to my mind, preempts the discretion which belongs to the juvenile court. It appears that the majority goes beyond insisting that the juvenile court use only adjudication factors allowed by law, and is saying that this minor may not be sent to the Youth Authority. The majority does say that “[w]e start with the well settled premise that the type of disposition made by the juvenile court is within the sound discretion of that court.” In my opinion, we should stop with that premise and not exercise the discretion of the juvenile court for it. As described in the majority opinion, the minor was involved in a one man crime wave of serious crimes. The seriousness of the crimes may not be used, as the majority says, as the basis to send the minor to the Youth Authority as punishment, but the major deviation from social norms shown by the robberies and associated serious felonies may well show, with other evidence, that this boy needs more than camp to straighten him out. At least, if the juvenile court said so, I could not say that their discretion was abused, which is the test we are supposed to apply.
A petition for a rehearing was denied July 7, 1978, and respondent’s petition for a hearing by the Supreme Court was denied August 24, 1978.

 Assigned by the Chairperson of the Judicial Council.