In re A.S. CA2/7

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION SEVEN

In re A.S., a Person Coming Under B302103 the Juvenile Court Law. (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. NJ29946)

THE PEOPLE,

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

A.S.,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Gibson W. Lee, Judge. Affirmed. Lynette Gladd Moore, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.

A.S. appeals from the juvenile court’s order declaring him a ward of the court after finding he was in possession of a controlled substance. We affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A high school dean had 16-year-old A.S.’s backpack searched on campus. Inside the backpack were two bottles, one of which contained a mixture of cough syrup and soda. A criminalist with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s crime laboratory determined the cough syrup in the bottle contained codeine. The People filed a Welfare and Institutions Code section 602 petition alleging A.S. possessed a controlled substance (codeine) in violation of Health and Safety Code section 11350, a misdemeanor. The juvenile court sustained the petition, declared A.S. a ward of the court, and ordered him home on probation. A.S. timely appealed.