A.A. v. State

NESBITT, Judge.

The juvenile challenges his adjudication of delinquency based upon possession of marijuana. We affirm.

The sole point on appeal is whether the state adequately identified the substance seized as marijuana. The state’s only witness, the arresting officer, testified that in his opinion the substance was marijuana. The state relies on this opinion to satisfy its burden that it prove beyond a reason*166able doubt that the substance was marijuana.

The officer had been with the police department for nine years and had spent four years in a special narcotics unit. During this time he had…