In the Matter of D.I.B.

OPINION

LÓPEZ, Justice.

This appeal arises from an adjudication of juvenile delinquency. A jury determined that D.I.B. engaged in delinquent conduct by committing murder and assessed a determinate sentence of twenty years confinement. Because we find that the trial court committed reversible error in admonishing D.I.B. prior to the entry of her plea, we reverse and remand for a new trial.

D.I.B. was a fifteen-year-old high school student at the time of the event that is the subject of this appeal. At that time, D.I.B. lived with her 22-year-old boyfriend, Armando, and Armando’s mother. One day…