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No statement, admission or confession made by, or incriminating information obtained from, a youth participating in a Youth & Family Team Meeting (convened for dually involved youth, or youth at risk of becoming dually involved) may be admitted as substantive or impeachment evidence in any current or future juvenile justice or adult court adjudication proceeding (In re Wayne H. (1979) 24 Cal.3d 595).
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[File stamp: FILED, 2014 MAR 26 A 8:21, David H. Yamasaki, Clerk of the Superior Court, County of Santa Clara, California, By: [signature], Deputy Clerk, Laura Garcia] SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA JUVENILE DIVISION ORDER PROVIDING THAT STATEMENTS MADE BY YOUTH DURING YOUTH AND FAMILY TEAM MEETINGS ARE PROTECTED FROM USE IN FUTURE PROCEEDINGS The court finds that youth involved with both the juvenile justice and child welfare system represent a particularly vulnerable population in need of meaningful joint coordination and service delivery. Further, the court finds that youth and their families must be engaged in the process of developing an effective service plan. Accordingly, a new process culminating in “Youth and Family Team Meetings” (YFTM) has been developed to engage families and other natural supports of dually involved youth or those youth who are at risk of becoming dually involved. The YFTM is designed to assess the needs and strengths of the youth and family and develop appropriate recommendations to the court that meaningfully meet the youth’s needs. Candor on the part of the minor is fundamental to the success of this meeting. The YFTM will be formally convened by the Probation Officer and shall also include the current social worker, and may also include a dually involved youth advocate, non-attorney representatives from the minor’s and/or parent’s attorney’s office(s), representatives from Child Advocates, treatment providers and other supports important to the youth and family. The court finds that, in order for youth to feel comfortable speaking freely throughout the YFTM, they will need assurance that statements made during the meeting will be excluded from use in future proceedings. Judicially declared rules of evidence based on the privilege against self-incrimination, known as use immunities, have been established to bar the admission of incriminating statements made in certain contexts for policy reasons. Such immunities are consistent with the rehabilitative goals of the Juvenile Court. Based upon this finding, and consistent with In re Wayne H. (1979) 24 Cal.3d. 595, and its progeny, and recognizing that the YFTM meetings are non-accusatory events not calculated to elicit evidence of guilt, but are another pre-adjudication probation interview, the court makes the following order: No statements, admissions or confessions made by, or incriminating information obtained from, a youth participating in a Youth & Family Team Meeting shall be admitted as substantive evidence or evidence of impeachment in any current or future juvenile justice and/or adult court adjudication proceeding. So Ordered. Date: March 26th 2014 [signature] The Honorable Patrick Tondreau Presiding Judge of the Juvenile Court
[File stamp: FILED, 2014 MAR 26 A 8:21, David H. Yamasaki, Clerk of the Superior Court, County of Santa Clara, California, By: [signature], Deputy Clerk, Laura Garcia] SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA JUVENILE DIVISION ORDER PROVIDING THAT STATEMENTS MADE BY YOUTH DURING YOUTH AND FAMILY TEAM MEETINGS ARE PROTECTED FROM USE IN FUTURE PROCEEDINGS The court finds that youth involve
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-28 (California T3 Santa Clara build 2026-09-28) from BenchPath custody ca/t3/ca-santa-clara/juv/356djuvjustice.pdf (50173 bytes, sha256 e977a83d1224f2c411624e3933de9e3d68e24476395eab30873bf73493f72d41; 1 page) - the court's own posted PDF, a scan: transcribed from the rendered page images, every page read against the image; a machine reading (RapidOCR) was used only as a second reader for a word-level diff, every difference classified (misreadings, the file stamp and caption overprints, pleading line numbers, page numbers and running footers omitted as chrome), and each line the machine reader skipped was re-read in a full-resolution crop; every quotation mark, apostrophe, dash and section sign checked in full-resolution crops; the file stamp and the signatures are bracketed. Printed irregularities are kept as printed.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.