A.C. v. State

The respondent, A.C., appeals his adjudication of delinquency and seeks a new adjudicatory hearing based on the trial court’s exclusion of the correspondent’s testimony at the hearing. We reverse.

The trial court granted the corespondent’s motion for a judgment of acquittal. After the respondent had testified on his own behalf, the respondent’s counsel announced his intention to call the corespondent as a witness. The respondent’s counsel proffered that the corespondent would corroborate the respondent’s version of the disputed events which formed the basis for the charges in the case. The…