D.A.S., Matter Of

OPINION AND ORDER

BRIDGES, Justice.

This case presents the question of the appropriate procedure to be used when an attorney appointed to represent a juvenile in an appeal from a delinquency adjudication concludes that no meritorious grounds exist for appeal. Counsel for appellant D.A.S. has filed an Anders brief with an accompanying motion to withdraw as counsel.1 Proceeding as if this case involved an adult, counsel has also notified appellant of his right to file a pro se brief. Because a delinquency action is civil in nature and because a minor is under a legal disability and cannot appear…