MATTER OF WELFARE OF L.Z.

Nos. C7-85-1357, C7-85-1665 and C9-85-1666.

396 N.W.2d 214 (1986)

In the Matter of the WELFARE OF L.Z., C.R.P. and S.L.P.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

November 21, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beverly J. Wolfe, Ross Quaintance, Minneapolis, for appellant.

William R. Kennedy, David Knutson, Philip D. Bush, Minneapolis, for respondent.

Heard, considered, and decided by the court en banc


SIMONETT, Justice.

This appeal raises issues of what constitutes the juvenile offense of habitual truancy1 and how it may be proved. The court of appeals ruled school attendance records were inadmissible to prove the offense and reversed the determinations of truancy in three cases for insufficiency of the evidence. We reverse the court of appeals in two of the juvenile cases and affirm in the...

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