State v. A.J.

CRENSHAW, Judge.

The State appeals the dismissal of a marijuana possession charge against A.J. The trial court dismissed the charge-over the State's repeated objections-after A.J. had orally moved for dismissal on the basis that she had returned six consecutive negative drug screens as the court had ordered. Because the dismissal was error, we must reverse.

The State charged A.J. with one count of possessing less than twenty grams of a controlled substance-marijuana-after a school official found a "marijuana blunt" in A.J.'s makeup bag during a search. At a status conference on April 30, 2015,…