People v. J.L.
Annotate this CaseDefendant, a minor student, committed burglary in violation of Penal Code section 459 because he stole another student's cell phone out of a school locker. Defendant petitioned to change his juvenile felony burglary offense to a misdemeanor shoplifting offense under Proposition 47. The court affirmed the order denying defendant's petition for recall of sentence because the court, looking at the ordinary meaning of the statute, does not believe that the voters enacting Proposition 47 understood a public high school to be a commercial establishment or a theft from a school locker to be “shoplifting.” Therefore, the trial court correctly found defendant's burglary offense ineligible for reclassification.
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