D.R.C. v. State

THOMPSON, Judge.

D.R.C., a juvenile, appeals a final order adjudicating him delinquent for possession of controlled substance with intent to sell or deliver1 and resisting arrest without violence.2 He argues that the circumstantial evidence presented was insufficient to prove he had an intent to sell rock cocaine.

Two officers of the Cocoa Beach Police Department approached D.R.C. to issue a trespass warning. The officers observed D.R.C. remove a paper bag from his pocket and drop it on the ground. When the paper bag was recovered, it contained 23 separate, unwrapped rocks of cocaine in a…