In re C.R. CA2/1

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

In re C.R., a Person Coming Under B332857 the Juvenile Court Law.

(Los Angeles County THE PEOPLE, Super. Ct. No. FJ58096-100622)

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

C.R.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from the judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Robert J. Totten, Judge. Affirmed. Courtney M. Selan, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Los Angeles Department Police Officers arrested appellant C.R. for being a minor in possession of a handgun. After the juvenile court denied C.R.’s motion to suppress evidence, the court declared him a person described by Welfare and Institutions Code section 602 and placed him on probation.1 C.R. appealed. C.R.’s appellate counsel found no arguable issues to raise on appeal and filed a brief pursuant to People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436 (Wende). After independently reviewing the record, we affirm the judgment.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL SUMMARY On October 6, 2022, the district attorney filed a petition under section 602 alleging that C.R. was a minor in possession of a handgun in violation of Penal Code section 29610, subdivision (a), a misdemeanor. According to the detention report, two police officers in a patrol car saw C.R. walking on a street with “an unknown object tucked in his front waistband[,] which was causing a large bulge. [C.R.] was also holding the object as if he was armed with a firearm.” The officers pulled their patrol car up alongside C.R. and asked him “what was under his shirt.” C.R. “voluntarily raised his shirt and [the] officers observed the handle of a firearm tucked in [his] front waistband.” The officers then took C.R. “into custody and recovered a semi-automatic pistol with a seated magazine from [C.R.’s] waistband.” C.R. was 16 years old at the time.