Anderson v. K.S.

MESCHKE, Justice.

The State appeals the part of a juvenile court order that set aside a referee’s finding that K.S., a 15-year-old girl, committed the unruly act of being a minor in possession of alcohol. We affirm.

At 1:53 a.m. on August 25, 1992, police went to a house in Grand Forks on a “loud party” complaint. Officer Mark Ellingson knocked several times, without response until he announced himself. As someone came to answer the door, Ellingson realized that “juveniles, began running upstairs — I could hear them running upstairs and I could also hear them hiding within the house.” Inside,…