Y.R. v. State

Y.R. was a fifteen-year-old high school student when he was charged with the theft of an iPad from his school in January 2016.1 Global positioning- software in the *1009device located it in Y.R.’s apartment building, and the high school then determined that no other students lived in that building. Ultimately, Y.R. was charged with grand theft of the iPad and adjudicated delinquent of first-degree petit theft under section 812.014(2)(e), Florida Statutes (2016), applicable when “the property stolen is valued at $100 or more, but less than $300.”

The issue on appeal challenges the sufficiency of the…