M.J. v. State

M.J., a juvenile, appeals his adjudication of delinquency for resisting an officer without violence. We affirm.

M.J. was charged by petition of delinquency with resisting an officer without violence, § 843.02, Fla. Stat. (2007),1 and petit theft. The State nolle prossed the petit theft count, and at the adjudicatory hearing on the resisting an officer charge, the State presented the testimony of Officer Milian of the Miami-Dade Police Department.

Officer Milian testified that she was working off-duty providing security at a mall, wearing a shirt with the Miami-Dade police insignia on the front…