In re Spencer S

In In re Spencer S. (2009) 176 Cal.App.4th 1315, the minor was at a party where several youths got into a fight with an adult gang member. It was a melee and the minor was seen hitting someone in the face. The minor had no prior offenses as a juvenile, but the juvenile court and probation department believed he needed structure and probation conditions limiting his associations. The court therefore imposed the condition the minor not associate with persons he knew were on probation. (Id. at p. 1321.) Challenged on appeal, the appellate court upheld the condition as not being an abuse of juvenile court discretion. The restriction on the minor's association with probationers "is sufficiently related to the goals of (1) promoting his rehabilitation and reformation, and (2) protecting the public. . . . The condition is especially valid in light of the state's authority over juvenile wards and a ward's concomitant circumscribed constitutional rights." (Spencer S., at p. 1331.)