J. L. B. v. State

SCHWARTZ, Judge.

J.L.B. appeals from an adjudication of delinquency arising from a determination that he was guilty of grand theft. We reluctantly reverse on the holding that this finding is not supported by the record.

This is another in the apparently endless series of cases involving the legal sufficiency of the evidence to link the particular defendant or juvenile respondent with a crime perpetrated by another. In this instance the issue arises in the following simple and all-too-familiar context. The victim was entering her vehicle in a parking lot in the city of Miami when she saw two…