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IN RE R.L.C.

No. 531A06.

643 S.E.2d 920 (2007)

In the Matter of R.L.C.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 4, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Amy C. Kunstling, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Staples S. Hughes, Appellate Defender, and Constance E. Widenhouse, Assistant Appellate Defender, for respondent-appellant.

Michael Kent Curtis, Shannon Gilreath, Winston-Salem, and Robert N. Hunter, Jr., Greensboro, for the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers and American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, amici curiae.

Theresa A. Newman, Durham, for Erwin Chemerinsky, amicus curiae.

BRADY, Justice.

In this case we determine whether a juvenile may be adjudicated delinquent based upon his violation of the crime against nature statute. We hold that he may and accordingly affirm the decision of the Court of Appeals.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

The evidence presented at the juvenile trial tended to show that defendant R.L.C. and O.P.M. were dating in the spring and summer of 2003. At the time the two were dating, R.L.C. was fourteen...

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