The state appeals from the juvenile court's dismissal of a delinquency rape charge against a ten-year-old boy. In its two assignments of error the state argues: (1) the juvenile court improperly imposed a pretrial burden of proof on the state where a juvenile under the age of fourteen was charged with rape, and (2) the juvenile court erred in dismissing the rape charge. Because we conclude that the...
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