In re Dustin A. CA5
Dustin A. is a former ward of the juvenile court who is subject to a requirement, currently stayed, to register as a sex offender because he was once found to have committed a violation of Penal Code section 647.6, annoying or molesting a child, and was subsequently committed to the California Youth Authority (CYA), now known as the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ). In 2010, the superior court granted Dustin’s writ petition asking the court to strike the section 647.6 adjudication from a 1995 order that had cited it as one basis for his commitment to CYA. The purpose and effect of the superior court’s 2010 order was to relieve Dustin of the obligation to register as a sex offender, and also to remove several sex-offense-based conditions of parole to which he was subject following some adult convictions of unrelated offenses. After an appeal by the People, we disagreed with the superior court’s reasoning and reversed the order, but kept the stay in place and remanded to allow
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