"The juvenile court found that Dean W. (the ward) had committed a
misdemeanor violation of Vehicle Code section 23152, driving under the influence. The
court later found that the ward had successfully completed his probation and terminated
his wardship. The court granted the ward’s request to seal his juvenile court records,
except for one document regarding his acknowledgement that he knew driving under the
influence of drugs or alcohol was dangerous to human life.
The Welfare and Institutions Code allows minors who have completed their
rehabilitation to have “all” records of their juvenile adjudication sealed. The Vehicle
Code authorizes criminal prosecutors to use a criminal defendant’s acknowledgement of
the dangerousness of driving under the influence as evidence of implied malice in a later
second degree murder case. We publish this case because, based on the words of the
statutes and their underlying purposes and policies, the ward’s right to have all of his
juvenile records sealed includes the ward’s acknowledgement of the dangerousness of
driving under the influence. Therefore, we reverse the juvenile court’s order, with
directions to seal the entirety of the ward’s records, to ensure that other government
agencies specified in the statute seal the ward’s records, and to consider whether other
government agencies also be ordered to do so."
Or, somewhat more concisely: "All" means all.
