In re Jeremy M.
Jeremy M. (appellant) appeals from the orders declaring wardship (Welf. & Inst. Code, 602) and committing him to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Justice, after a finding that he had committed second degree murder with the discharge of a firearm proximately causing death (Pen. Code, 187, subd. (a), 12022.53, subd. (d)). The juvenile court ordered the maximum period of confinement was 15 years. (Welf. & Inst. Code, 731, subd. (b).)
He contends that (1) the evidence is insufficient to support a finding of murder because appellants testimony that he acted in self-defense was uncontroverted, (2) the juvenile court improperly relied on profile and propensity evidence in reaching its verdict, thus depriving appellant of due process, and (3) appellants statement to the police, taken in the absence of a Miranda warning (Mirandav. Arizona (1966) 384 U.S. 436 (Miranda)), was inadmissible in evidence. The contentions lack merit, and the orders under review are affirmed.
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