Juvenile court’s conviction of a minor for resisting a public officer under Penal Code section 148(a)(1) arising from a vandalism charge is reversed where, as a matter of law, a campus security officer is not a public officer for purposes of section 148.     

Read In re M.M., No. E045714

Appellate Information

Filed September 24, 2009

Judges

Opinion by Judge McKinster

Counsel

For Appellant:  Lauren E. Eskenazi, under appointment by the Court of Appeal

For Appelle:  Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, and Jeffrey J. Koch and Scott C. Taylor, Deputy Attorneys General

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