People v. Superior Court (John D.)

Opinion

NEWSOM, J.

The People petition for an alternative writ of mandate to compel respondent court to set aside two parts of its order of January 17, 1979, which (1) dismissed a petition to have the real party in interest declared a ward of the juvenile court under Welfare and Institutions Code section 6021 1 and (2) sustained a petition to declare the minor a dependent child of the court pursuant to section 300, subdivision (c).

The original petition alleged that the minor was within the juvenile court’s jurisdiction under section 602—which in essence provides wardship for juvenile criminal…