In re S.S. CA4/3
In July of 2021, after a contested jurisdictional hearing, Superior Court Judge Katherine Lewis found it to be true that appellant S.S. (a juvenile) had violated Penal Code section 211 (robbery). Specifically, the court found that appellant and another man accosted the victim, pulled his bag from his shoulder, jumped into a blue van, and fled. The victim testified he stopped struggling and allowed appellant to take the bag because he was afraid.
The victim of the robbery was “100 percent sure” of his identification of appellant, even though he thought the robber was about the same height he was, and appellant is roughly six inches taller. Defense called an eyewitness identification expert who testified about the unreliability of identifications in circumstances such as those presented in this case. Nonetheless, the trial judge was convinced and found the petition true.
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