A.A.Q. v. State

OPINION

BAKER, Judge.

Appellant-respondent A.A.Q. appeals his adjudication as a juvenile delinquent for committing an act that would have been Trespass,1 a class A misdemeanor, if committed by an adult. Specifically, A.A.Q. maintains that the delinquency finding must be set aside because he did not knowingly and intelligently waive his right to counsel at the initial hearing. A.A.Q. also argues that it was an abuse of discretion for the juvenile court to have placed him in the Southwest Indiana Regional Youth Village (Youth Village) following the dispositional hearing. Concluding that the…