In re K.P. CA3
Appellant, K.P., was the subject of a wardship petition under Welfare and Institutions Code section 602 for hitting his neighbor with a baseball bat during a heated confrontation. (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 602, subd. (a).) Shortly before the jurisdictional hearing, K.P. and his mother requested a continuance in order to hire private counsel and also requested a Marsden hearing to relieve his appointed counsel. The court denied the Marsden motion and the continuance. Following a contested jurisdictional hearing, the court sustained the petition finding K.P. committed an assault with a deadly weapon. (Pen. Code, § 245, subd. (a)(1).) The juvenile court adjudged K.P. a ward of the court and committed him to probation with a juvenile hall term of 90 days, with 60 days suspended pending successful completion of the Reconnect Program. Among other terms and conditions, the court ordered K.P. to have no contact with the neighbor he assaulted.
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