In any hearing conducted pursuant to Section 701 or 702 to determine whether a minor is a person described in Section 601 or 602, the minor has a privilege against self-incrimination and has a right to confrontation by, and cross-examination of, witnesses.
Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 702.5
Wards—Hearings
Known as the Arnold-Kennick Juvenile Court Law
The act spans §§ 200 to 987 (682 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Matter of Spalding (1975)
Most recently applied in 236 Cal. App. 4th 646 - T.W. v. Superior Court of Contra Costa County (April 2015)
Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1355.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.