People in Interest of MC

ERICKSON, Justice,

specially concurring in the result:

When the petition in delinquency was filed M.C. was a seventeen-year old juvenile. M.C. was initially charged with the felony offense of second-degree burglary and subsequently was charged with the second-class petty offense of possession of not more than one ounce of marijuana. Pursuant to a plea agreement, M.C. pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor marijuana charge and the felony charge was dismissed. The plea agreement was entered *864into and the dispositional hearing was held after M.C. attained the age of eighteen years.

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