J.D. v. State

DICKSON, Justice.

In appealing the trial court judgment adjudicating her to be a delinquent child for committing disorderly conduct, a class B misdemeanor when committed by an adult,1 J.D. asserts that her conduct was an exercise of free speech protected by the Indiana Constitution, that the trial court should not have admitted evidence of her statements, which were made without Miranda warnings, and that the trial court's dispositional order was excessively harsh. Concluding that J.D. was engaged in protected political speech, the Court of Appeals reversed. J.D. v. State, 841 N.E.2d 204,…