State Ex Rel. Juvenile Department v. Mitchell

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, even though the vehicle’s locks had been punched and the ignition area damaged, there was no evidence that the defendant (a passenger) had noticed those issues
• reversing juvenile court jurisdiction where the evidence was not sufficient to support a finding that, beyond a reasonable doubt, the child knew that the vehicle in which he had ridden was stolen
• “A person charged with unauthorized use must know that the vehicle was stolen at the time the person was a passenger.”
• evidence of damage to door locks and ignition was not sufficient to prove “knowledge” element of UUV charge when there was no evidence that the damage was obvious or that the passenger had noticed it
• evidence of damage to door locks and ignition was not sufficient to prove “knowledge” element of UUV charge against a passenger when there was no evidence that the damage was obvious or that the passenger had noticed it
• insufficient evidence to estab- lish the youth’s knowledge that the vehicle he was riding in was stolen, despite the fact that the vehicle’s door locks were punched and the ignition was damaged, because there was no evidence that the youth perceived that damage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).