J.C. v. State

This is an appeal by the respondent J.C. from an adjudication of juvenile delinquency for burglary of an automobile and theft of an automobile. The sole point on appeal is that the trial court erred in denying the defendant’s pretrial motion to suppress, based on Fourth Amendment grounds, certain oral statements allegedly made to the police by the respondent after, it is urged, being illegally stopped by the police while driving the alleged stolen vehicle.

*1184We have reviewed the transcript of the motion to suppress hearing in which the two police officers who stopped and questioned the…