C.R.C. v. State

CASANUEVA, Judge.

C.R.C., who was charged with battery on a school board employee after he allegedly shoved the assistant principal during an altercation with another student, claims on appeal that the court erred in finding that he committed the delinquent act of disorderly conduct. We must reverse because, contrary to the trial judge’s belief, disorderly conduct is not a lesser-included offense of the act with which the defendant was charged.

At trial both the assistant principal and the juvenile testified. C.R.C. admitted that he was fighting with another student but insisted that he never…