J.E.R. v. State

Fifteen-year-old J.E.R. was hiding in a friend’s bedroom when he should have been in school. The friend’s father found him upon returning from taking his son to school. The father had left the home vacant and unlocked. The father removed J.E.R. from the home and returned him to the area near the school that J.E.R. told him he attended. The father then discovered that several valuable items were missing from the home. One of these items was found in J.E.R.’s possession later that day.

*822Based on these events, the State filed a petition alleging delinquency against J.E.R. for burglary of a…