People v. B.M. (In re B.M.)

*530Penal Code section 245, subdivision (a)(1) (hereafter section 245(a)(1) ) prohibits "assault[ing] ... the person of another with a deadly weapon or instrument other *545than a firearm." In this case, the juvenile court found that defendant B.M.'s use of a knife with a dull tip and slightly serrated edge, which the court referred to as a "butter knife," violated section 245(a)(1). On appeal, B.M. argued that insufficient evidence supported the juvenile court's finding because she had not used the butter knife in a manner that was " 'capable of producing and likely to produce, death or great bodily…