J.M. v. State

CORRECTED OPINION

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

After a delinquency hearing at which the juvenile respondent-appellant, J.M., was not represented by counsel, the trial court found him delinquent, but withheld adjudication and placed the juvenile in a community control program without committing him to an institution. Although, prior to and at the merits hearing, the trial judge engaged in a lengthy series of colloquies on the subject of the juvenile’s eligibility for appointed counsel, the details of which need not be elaborated upon here, the state concedes that J.M.’s ability to afford private…