D.M. v. State

OPINION

BAKER, Chief Judge.

Appellant-respondent D.M. appeals his adjudication as a juvenile delinquent for having committed acts that would have been two counts of Theft,1 a class D felony, had they been committed by an adult. Specifically, D.M. argues that the finding of delinquency must be set aside because the trial court erred in admitting stolen credit cards and car keys that a school teacher seized from his jacket into evidence. We conclude that the search of D.M.'s jacket was not justified at its inception because there were not reasonable grounds for suspecting that the search would…