In re Israel M.
An amended petition charged Israel M., who was then 17 years old, with two counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence while intoxicated (Pen. Code, § 191.5, subd. (a)) and two counts of driving with a blood alcohol content of .08 percent or more causing bodily injury (Veh. Code, § 23153, subd. (b)). It also alleged he caused bodily injury or death to more than one victim (Veh. Code, § 23558) and personally inflicted great bodily injury (Pen. Code, § 12022.7, subd. (a)).
Minor admitted all of the crimes and enhancements. At the disposition hearing the juvenile court declared minor to be a ward of the court (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 602)[1] and committed him to the “care, custody and control of the Orange County probation officer [sic] for commitment to juvenile hall or appropriate facility for 1095 days . . . .â€
Minor challenges the determinate nature and the length of his commitment. We modify the disposition order to state a maximum term rather than a fixed term of confinement, and affirm the disposition order in all other respects.
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