E.L. v. State

OPINION

FRIEDLANDER, Judge.

E.L. was adjudicated a delinquent child after entering into a plea agreement with the State in which she admitted to the allegation of committing an act that would constitute disorderly conduct if committed by an adult. She now appeals presenting the following restated issue: Did the juvenile court abuse its discretion by committing her to the Department of Correction for a one-year recommended term?

We vacate the dispositional decree.1

On March 24, 2002, seventeen-year-old E.L. lived with her grandmother, her two half-brothers, and her own one-year-old daughter.…