J.D. v. State

SULLIVAN, Justice.

In this delinquency case, J.D. was sentenced to a fixed term of one year. He seeks credit against that one-year term for the 35 days he was confined prior to sentencing. We hold that requiring credit for the time a juvenile has spent in pre-dispo-sition confinement would impermissibly impinge upon the juvenile court’s broad authority to fashion dispositional alternatives.

Background

Fifteen-year-old J.D. was arrested and alleged to be a delinquent child for committing acts that, if committed by an adult, would constitute burglary, theft, and resisting law enforcement. He…