SCOTT L. v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Springer, J.:

Appellant Scott L., a sixteen-year-old high school student, was heavily involved in the sale of marijuana to his fellow students. Following a sale of marijuana to an undercover drug enforcement agent the minor was adjudicated a delinquent and committed by the juvenile court to the Spring Mountain Youth Camp, a “place of involuntary confinement and punitive incarceration.” See Glenda Kay S., A Minor v. State, 103 Nev. 53, 732 P.2d 1356 (1987). The sole reason given by the presiding juvenile court judge for such disposition was the “deterrent effect” of…