O.B. v. State

Fifteen-year-old O.B., his brother, and a Mend were on their way to play basketball at an elementary school near the brothers’ home when it began pouring rain. The youths sought shelter under a neighbor’s carport. Just as the rain was abating, a police car pulled up, and one of the officers, with his gun drawn, approached the youths. This scared them, and they ran away. O.B. became separated from the others and hid in someone’s backyard, where he was soon apprehended by a newly-arrived officer, who ordered him to lie face down in the mud and handcuffed him. Then, the boy testified, the…