L. L. J. v. State

On February 27, 1975, appellant, a child of 14 years of age, was charged in a petition for delinquency with loitering and prowling in a parking garage at the Miami International Airport. An adjudicatory hearing was held. The judge of the juvenile court found “beyond and to the exclusion of any reasonable doubt that said child . . . did unlawfully loiter and prowl . . . ,” adjudication was temporarily withheld and the child was placed on probation in the custody of his mother under the supervision of the Division of Youth Services. This appeal ensued.

The evidence adduced at the adjudicatory…