A.E.B. v. State

STRINGER, Judge.

A.E.B. challenges a delinquency adjudication for trespass and resisting an officer without violence. Because the trial court erred by admitting hearsay testimony at trial, we reverse as to the trespass adjudication.

At trial, the victim of the trespass, Cynthia Singleton, testified that she returned home on May 22 to find her house ransacked. Mrs. Singleton reported the incident to Hillsborough County Sheriff Deputy Steven McDermott. When he arrived at the scene, Deputy McDermott interviewed Mrs. Singleton and a neighbor, Mrs. LaFleur. Mrs. LaFleur told Deputy McDermott that a…