Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

Re: Meaning

I assume this is related to the other 245(a)(1) question just asked recently.

Petitioned and detained means that a juvenile petition (charging document) was filed and the minor (the defendant or accused) was detained. In juvenile law, "detained" is the equivalent of being held without bail, as there is no bail in juvenile cases. Either the minor is detained or they are not.

At the court hearing the charges were lodged against the minor, a denial (aka not guilty plea) was entered and the minor was ordered held in juvenile hall pending the outcome of the case (they were detained)>

Re: Meaning

Some juvenile is in jail for beating somebody with a deadly weapon, but not a gun, and inflicting great bodily injury.