T.R. v. State

T.R., a juvenile, appeals her withhold of adjudication and sanction for simple battery. She argues she is entitled to a new disposition hearing before a different judge because the trial court impermissi-bly relied upon the fact that she maintained her innocence to the charged offense throughout the proceeding below. We agree and reverse.

T.R. was charged with simple battery for smacking the victim, a fellow student, with her lunch box at a bus stop for allegedly making sexually offensive remarks to T.R. T.R. maintained her innocence and requested an adjudicatory hearing by the court below.…