State v. J. H. S.

The juvenile appellant admitted two counts (burglary and attempted burglary) alleged in a petition to adjudicate him delinquent. The trial court found that the charges were established, found the juvenile delinquent and committed him to the custody of the State Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Corrections Reception Center, State School for Boys at Wales, Wisconsin. During the dispositional phase of the proceeding the trial court was made aware by a juvenile probation officer that the juvenile had previously testified at a preliminary hearing in a criminal case, after a…