C.B. v. State

C.B. appeals from an adjudication of delinquency for the crimes of criminal mischief and petit theft. He challenges only his adjudication on the criminal mischief charge.

Officer Alvarez saw C.B. stick a hanger into a Metrorail turnstile. Between efforts at “working” the hanger, the Officer saw C.B. check the coin return. From a distance of seventy-eight feet, Alvarez admitted that he did not actually see the wire enter any of the holes in the turnstile. He also admitted that he never saw C.B. remove any coins from the turnstile, that he never saw C.B. with any coins in his hands, and that he…