D.B. v. State

ROTHENBERG, Judge.

D.B., a juvenile, appeals from an order withholding adjudication of delinquency and placing him on probation. His sole argument on appeal is that the trial court erred in permitting the State to give the first and final closing arguments. Because D.B. did not present any evidence nor offer any testimony in his own behalf at the adjudicatory hearing, he was entitled to present the first and final closing arguments. As D.B. timely objected to the procedure employed by the trial court, we reverse.

In an adult criminal prosecution, the State is entitled to give the first closing…