S.R.J. v. State

In this appeal of S.J.’s adjudication and sentence, resulting from an alleged violation of probation in a delinquency case, Appellant has filed a motion for new trial due to the unavailability of the adjudicatory hearing transcript. Finding that the transcript is necessary to a fair review on appeal, we reverse for a new adjudicatory hearing on Appellant’s violation of probation.

The court reporter below attested to the fact that no audible recording pertaining to the violation of probation proceeding was made below because the judge inadvertently turned off the digital recording at the…