State v. Steinbach

The defendant, Terri L. Steinbach, appeals the judgment of the King County Superior Court, Juvenile Department, convicting her of second degree burglary, alleging that there was insufficient evidence to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. We are asked whether a minor child who has been temporarily removed from her parental home and placed in an alternative residence pursuant to a court ordered alternative residential placement can be convicted of burglarizing the parental home.

Since April of 1981, Terri L. Steinbach, a minor child, had been living with her natural mother, Verna Garcia,…