In Re TEF

614 S.E.2d 296 (2005)

359 N.C. 570

In the Matter of T.E.F.

No. 608A04.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 1, 2005.

Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Judith Tillman, Assistant Attorney General, for the State-appellant.

Adrian M. Lapas, Goldsboro, for juvenile-appellee.

LAKE, Chief Justice.

The sole question presented for review is whether the trial court, in conducting a juvenile adjudicatory hearing, committed reversible error by accepting the admission of guilt of the juvenile (T.E.F.) without conducting the full inquiry required under N.C.G.S. § 7B-2407(a).

The Court of Appeals' majority reversed…