1. Introduction
Shortly after 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve in 1986, a police officer saw Timothy R. (the minor), then fifteen years old, talking with three other youths for about five minutes in an open breezeway between two buildings in a shopping center in San Jose. Without speaking to them, the officer concluded they were not there to shop in any of the open stores, but were trespassing...
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