State v. C. E. B.

Youth appeals from an order of the juvenile court denying his motion to dismiss a delinquency petition and to set aside a judgment finding him to be within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. The court denied the motion after determining that the court’s jurisdiction over youth — and its authority to enter an order dismissing the delinquency petition — ended when youth’s probation ended in 2003. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the juvenile court erred. We reverse and remand for the juvenile court to consider the merits of youth’s motion to dismiss the delinquency petition.

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