In Re JVJ

707 S.E.2d 636 (2011)

In the Matter of J.V.J.

No. COA10-1074.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

March 1, 2011.

Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General Charles G. Whitehead, for the State.

Appellate Defender Staples Hughes, by Assistant Appellate Defender David W. Andrews, for Respondent.

STEPHENS, Judge.

Factual and Procedural Background

On 28 December 2009, a juvenile petition was filed against then 15-year-old J.V.J. ("Joseph"),[1] alleging that Joseph assaulted Officer Gary Beneville ("Officer Beneville"), a school resource officer at Chapel Hill High School, by "striking,…