M.M. v. State

At issue in this Anders1 appeal is whether M.M. was correctly adjudicated delinquent for resisting an officer without violence where the evidence shows he was neither under arrest nor being detained when he refused to give his name or identification to the requesting officer. We reverse the adjudication because M.M.’s refusal to identify himself did not constitute obstruction or resistance.

On the evening of December 9, 2009, M.M. and a group of youngsters visited a Jacksonville-area Starbucks which is located in a shopping center anchored by a Publix supermarket. While there, the group got…