State v. T.S.

Because the trial court (1) expressly declined to find that the prosecuting attorney in a prior trial deliberately defied a pretrial court order to refrain from adducing evidence of the defendant’s bad character when the attorney responded to a trial court question during a non-jury, juvenile delinquency trial by stating, in part, that the respondent “had been warned previously to leave the property because he was out there committing some delinquent offenses”; (2) expressly concluded that the subject response “may have been inadvertent,” on the part of the prosecuting attorney, which is…