D.M.L. v. State

Respondent appeals from an adjudication of delinquency for disorderly conduct. For the following reasons, we reverse.

During a lunch break off-campus, respondent was seen fighting with another girl, “Ruff,” outside of Norland Senior High School. A school official and a school police officer arrived after the fight had started, but saw respondent holding Ruffs hair and pulling up Ruffs shirt. The two *1217men broke up the fight. At the adjudicatory hearing on the disorderly conduct charge,1 respondent testified that she was a student at Norland, was verbally confronted by Ruff, but walked away from…