State v. J.M.

¶1 We are asked to decide the constitutionality of a school resource officer’s warrantless post-arrest search of a high school student’s locked backpack on school grounds, where the search, which revealed an air pistol, was conducted after the officer saw the student *30holding suspectedmarijuana. A trial court found J.M., a juvenile, guilty of carrying a dangerous weapon at school and possessing less than 40 grams of marijuana. He appeals his dangerous weapon conviction, arguing that the trial court erred in ruling that the school resource officer (SRO) was a “school official” conducting a…