State v. C.B.

¶1 Carter B., a juvenile,1 was found guilty of second degree criminal trespass for his role in his friends’ entry into the fenced yard of Melvin Harris, an African-American, where Carter’s friends rang the doorbell, shouted a racist comment through an open window, and ran away. Carter challenges the disposition, invoking the common law implied license to approach a residential door, but without addressing the limitations of the common law license. He also invokes inapplicable United States constitutional First Amendment case law.

¶2 The juvenile court’s finding that the boys’ behavior exceeded…