In re T.C.
T.C., a ward of the court, appeals from a juvenile court dispositional order committing him to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Justice (now the Division of Juvenile Facilities (DJF)). The commitment order was entered after appellant was found to have violated the terms of his probation imposed on two sustained petitions for committing acts that constituted violations of Penal Code sections 243.4, subdivision (a) (sexual battery) and section 288, subdivision (b)(1) (lewd act on a child).
On direct appeal, appellant challenges both the finding that he violated probation and the DJF commitment. He also contends he was entitled to a jury trial on the underlying sexual offenses supporting his adjudication for violating Penal Code section 288 before the court imposed the mandatory “lifetime sanctions†of sex offender registration (Pen. Code, §§ 290, 290.008, 290.016) and the attendant mandatory consequence of sex offender residency restriction (Pen. Code, § 3003.5, subd. (b)) after his release from DJF.[1] Appellant has also filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus challenging his DJF commitment.[2] We affirm the dispositional order and summarily deny the petition for writ of habeas corpus.
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