In re Y.K.
Filed 5/16/06 In re Y.K. CA2/7
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION SEVEN
In re Y. K., a Person Coming Under the Juvenile Court Law. | B180898 (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. FJ34909) |
THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Y. K., Defendant and Appellant. |
APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County,
Mildred Escobedo, Judge. Affirmed.
Cynthia L. Barnes, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Margaret E. Maxwell and Steven E. Mercer, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
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Y. K. was declared a ward of the juvenile court after the court sustained a petition alleging he had committed the offenses of making criminal threats, attempted second degree robbery and battery against his mother. On appeal Y. K. contends the evidence is insufficient to support the attempted robbery finding. We affirm.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Jurisdiction Hearing
Evidence introduced at the jurisdiction hearing established that Y. K., then 13-years-old, lived at home with his mother. When she awakened him one morning, Y. cursed her and refused to go to school. He demanded $100 and threatened to kill her if she did not give him the money. Y. K. said he needed the money to buy sneakers and then punched his mother in the stomach and chest. She doubled over in pain and told him she had no money. His mother fled to the home of her sister (Y. K.'s aunt) because she was afraid of her son.
Y. K. telephoned his aunt repeatedly, telling her, â€
