People v. A.I.

Opinion

SCOTLAND, P. J.

Juvenile courts are busy places with limited time to handle the many matters that come before them. In a commendable effort to help streamline the juvenile delinquency proceeding in this case, the minor’s trial attorney agreed that law enforcement witnesses need not testify twice, first at a hearing on the minor’s motion to suppress evidence, and then give essentially the same testimony at the jurisdictional hearing. If, after hearing those witnesses’ testimony, the court denied the suppression motion and the minor wanted to “continue” with a contested trial of the…