Criminal

The Court of Appeal reversed and remanded. It held that section 730.6 gives juvenile courts discretion to award less than full economic loss when compelling and extraordinary reasons support a reduction. A minor’s responsibility and fault are relevant, though the statute does not make ability to pay

The Court of Appeal reversed the kidnapping-for-robbery conviction because the movements inside the home did not satisfy the independent asportation requirement; they were incidental to accomplishing the robbery. It left the false-imprisonment conviction intact because that offense does not require

The Court of Appeal held that attached human hair is part of the body, not personal property under Penal Code section 211. California generally regulates human tissue through specialized statutes rather than ordinary property law, and no statute converts hair severed and taken in a continuous act in