L.F. v. State

L.F., a juvenile, appeals from an adjudication of delinquency, claiming that the trial court violated his double jeopardy rights. We agree and reverse.

L.F. was charged, by petition for delinquency, with resisting an officer without violence. At trial, the lower court precluded the State from admitting pertinent testimony on hearsay grounds. As a consequence, the State could not prove an essential element of the charge, and the trial court granted L.F.’s motion for judgment of acquittal, signing a written final judgment of acquittal which was docketed in the record.

After judgment was entered,…