S.N.J. v. State

LaROSE, Judge.

S.N.J. and S.F. appeal their adjudications and dispositions for resisting an officer without violence. Because the trial court should have granted their motions for judgment of dismissal, we reverse.

A private security guard saw S.N.J., S.F., and two companions in the parking lot of an apartment complex. Apartment leases contained a no-loitering policy; the complex, however, had no posted no-loitering or no-trespassing signs. Upon questioning, the juveniles refused to give their names and addresses to the guard. He escorted one off the property and called the police to issue…