State v. TERRY T.

¶ 1. In this case the State seeks to place a juvenile in the Serious Juvenile Offender Program (SJOP) even though such placement was not part of the original dispositional order. The State argues that the juvenile's current age and escalating sexually offensive conduct qualify him for the SJOP and it asks us to affirm the trial court's order changing placement and extending the original dispositional order. We determine that the juvenile justice code authorizes a trial court to consider an SJOP placement only as part of an original disposition; it has no authority to consider the SJOP as a…