In Re Welfare of C.R.M.

OPINION

STRINGER, Justice.

In the course of a standard contraband check conducted on students’ coats at a juvenile day school in Anoka County, Minnesota on Monday, November 2, 1998, a teacher found a folding knife with a four-inch blade in appellant C.R.M.’s coat pocket. Appellant, a minor, was a student at the school. Appellant identified the coat as his and said he forgot to remove the knife from his coat after whittling over the weekend. Appellant was convicted for possessing a dangerous weapon on school property under Minn.Stat. § 609.66, subd. Id (1998), a felony offense. The court of…