In the Matter of C.O.S.

in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice HECHT, Justice ENOCH, Justice ABBOTT, Justice HANKINSON, Justice O’NEILL and Justice GONZALES joined.

C.O.S., a juvenile, was adjudicated delinquent, given a determinate sentence, and remanded to the custody of the Texas Youth Commission. The court of appeals affirmed. In C.O.S.’s appeal to this Court, he urges us to reverse and to remand this ease for a new trial because the trial court failed to explain to him and his parent, guardian, or ad litem, as required by section 54.03(b) of the Family Code, that (1) the record of a juvenile court adjudication…