Legal Opinion
In Re the Welfare of L.Z.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided November 21, 1986No. C7-85-1357, C7-85-1665 and C9-85-1666PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIMONETT, Justice.
This appeal raises issues of what constitutes the juvenile offense of habitual truancy 1 and how it may be proved. The court of appeals ruled school attendance records were inadmissible to prove the offense and reversed the determinations of truancy in three cases for insufficiency of the evidence. We reverse the court of appeals in two of the juvenile cases and affirm in the third case.
Respondent L.Z., age 15, was found by the trial court to be a habitual truant and fined $25. Using the school attendance records, which were received in evidence over objection, Blanch…
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